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CONTAINING  BRIEF  ANALYSES  OF 

THE  WORLD'S  GREAT  STORIES 


AND  ANALYTICAL  INDEXES  OF  THE 
CHIEF   ELEMENTS   FOUND   THEREIN 


MARION  MILLS  MILLER,  litt.  d. 

(Princeton) 


ISSUED  BY 

AUTHORS  PRESS 

NEW  YORK 


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ii  FOREWORD 

History,  that  with  their  many  subdivisions  form  indexes  within 
the  index,  as  it  were. 

The  items  under  each  entry  are  classified,  so  far  as  possible, 
according  to  similarity,  and  are  arranged  in  the  order  in  which 
the  stories  to  which  they  refer  appear  in  the  Manual.  This 
enables  an  investigator  of  a  particular  subject.  Ethics  for  ex- 
ample, to  run  through  the  analyses  in  their  page  order,  departing 
from  it  only  when  two  stories  in  different  parts  of  the  book 
are  entered  side  by  side  in  the  index  as  treating  of  the  same 
phase  of  the  subject.  In  short,  the  index  is  designed  to  be  both 
practical  and  logical. 

M.  M.  M. 


CONTENTS 


I.    AUTHORS 

Note:  Numbers  refer  to  analyses  on  pages  3  to  1 05 


About,    Edraond   Franfois  Valentin, 

91,92. 
Achard,  Louis  Amedee,  80 
Aguilar,  Grace,  377,  378 
Aide,  Charles  Hamilton,  426,  427 
Ainsworth,  William  Harrison,  321,  322 
Alarcon,  Pedro  Antonio  de,  146 
Alcott,  Louisa  M.,  598,  599 
Aldrich,  Thomas  Bailey,  603,  604 
Aleman,  Mateo,  145 
Alexander,  Mrs.  (Mrs.  Alexander  Hec- 
tor, n6e  Annie  French),  409,  410 
Allen,  James  Lane,  638,  639 
Amicis,  De,  Edmondo,  161 
Andersen,  Hans  Christian,  687,  688 
Annunzio,  Gabrielle  D',  163,  164 
Anstey,  F.  (Thomas  Anstey  Guthrie), 

484-487 
Arthur,  Timothy  Shay,  565 
Astor,  John  Jacob,  664 
Astor,  William  Waldorf,  632 
Auerbach,  Berthold,  179 
Austen,  Jane,  256-261 
Austin,  Jane  Goodwin,  595 
Azeglio,  Massimo  Taparelli  D*,  153 

Bacheller,  Irving,  657 

Balestier,  Wolcott,  659 

Balzac,    Honord  de,  21-42 

Banim,  John,  279 

Baring-Gould,  Sabine,  431 

Barr,  Amelia  Edith,  597 

Barrie,  James  Matthew,  498,  499 

Barrili,  Anton  Giulio,  158 

Bates,  Arlo,  641 

Baylor,  Frances  Courtenay,  631 

Bazin,  Rend,  140 

Beaconsfield:  see  Disraeli 

Beckford,  WilHan\  223 

Bede,    Cuthbert    (Edward    Bradley), 

414 
Beecher,  Henry  Ward,  575 
Behn,  Aphra,  198 
Bellamy,  Edward,  642,  643 
Bentzon,   Thdrese   (Madaine   Blanc) 

126 


Bernard,  De,  Charles,  71 
Besant,  Walter,  437-439 
Bird,  Robert  Montgomery,  553 
Bjornson,  Bjornstjerne,  692,  693 
Black,  William,  454-457 
Blackmore,  Richard  Doddridge,  411 
Boccaccio,  Giovanni,  149-150 
Boisgobey,  Du,  Fortund  Castille,  90 
Borrow,  George  Henry,  309 
Bourget,  Paul,  139 
Boyesen,  Hjalmar  Hjorth,  695 
Braddon,  Mary  Elizabeth  (Mrs.  John 

Maxwell),  440,  441 
Bremer,  Fredrika,  686 
Bronte,  Anne  (Acton  Bell),  396,  397 
Bronte,  Charlotte  (Currer  Bell),  373- 

376 
Bronte,  Emily  (Ellis  Bell),  380 
Brooks,  Charles  William  Shirley,  379 
Broughton,  Rhoda,  446,  447 
Brush,  Christine  Chaplin,  617 
Buchanan,  Robert,  458 
Bulwer-Lytton,  Edward  George  Earle 

283-308 
Burnett,  Frances  Hodgson,  634-636 
Burney,  Frances,  221 
Butti,  Enrico  Annibale,  165 
Bynner,  Edwin  Lassetter,  618 

Cable,  George  Washington,  621 
Caine,  Thomas  Henry  Hall,  477 
Cambridge,  Ada,  460 
Camoens,  Luis  de,  197 
Cantu,  Cesare,  155 
Carcano,  Giulio,  157 
Carleton,  William,  276 
Catherwood,  Mary  Hartwell,  628 
Cervantes,  Miguel  Saavedra  de,  144 
Chambers,  Robert  William,  667 
Chamisso,  Adelbert  von,  173 
Charles,  Elizabeth  Rundle,  418 
Chateaubriand,    Francois    Rend    de, 

13.  14 
Chatrian,  Alexander:  see  Erckmann 
Cherbuliez,  Victor,  94 
Cholmondeley,  Mary,  495 


IV 


CONTENTS— AUTHORS 


Churchill,  Winston,  672 

Claretie,  Arsene  Arnaud  Jules,  125 

Cobb,  Sylvanus,  Jr.,  584 

Cockton,  Henry,  325 

Collins,  William  Wilkie,  402-407 

Connor,  Ralph  (Charles  WiUiam  Gor- 
don), 699 

Conway,  Hugh  (Frederick  John  Far- 
gus),  462 

Cooper,  James  Fenimore,  520-550 

Coppde,  Francois,  128 

Corelli,  Marie  (Minnie  Mackay),  509 

Crawford,  Francis  Marion,  648,  649 

Crockett,  Samuel  Rutherford,  500 

Croly,  George,  266 

Cummins,  Maria  Susanna,  588 

Curtis,  George  William,  586 

Daudet,  Alphonse,  1 13-124 

Davis,  Rebecca  Harding,  594 

Davis,  Richard  Harding,  665 

[For  De  Amicis,  etc.,  see  Amicis,  De,] 

DeFoe,  Daniel,  199 

Dekker,  Eduard  Douwes,  689 

Deland,  Margaretta  Wade,  654 

Dickens,  Charles  John  Huffham,  338- 

352.     (See  also  320.) 
Dinarte,  Sylvio,  701 
Disraeli,  Benjamin,  Earl  of  Beacons- 
field,  310-320 
Dodge,  Mary  Mapes,  608 
Dole,  Nathan  Haskell,  646 
Doyle,  Arthur  Conan,  493,  494 
[For  Du  Boisgobey,  etc.,  see  Boisgobey, 

Du,] 
Dumas,  Alexandre  (Fils),  88,  89 
Dumas,  Alexandre  (Pere),  43-60 

Ebers,  Georg  Moritz,  193,  194 
Edgeworth,  Maria,  227,  228 
Edwards,  Ameha  Blandford,  428 
Eggleston,  Edward,  605 
Eggleston,  George  Cary,    613 
Eichendorff,  Joseph  von,  174 
Eliot,     George     (Mary    Ann    Evans 

Cross),  387-393 
Erckmann,    Emile;     and    Alexander 

Chatrian,  186 

Farjeon,  Benjamin  Leopold,  430 

Fenn,  George  Manville,  429 

Fern,  Fanny  (Sarah  Payson  Parton), 

569 
Ferrier,  Susan  Edmonstone,  269 
Feuillet,  Octave,  84,  85 
Fielding,  Henry,  204-207 
Flaubert,  Gustave,  81-83 
Fogazzaro,  Antonio,  160 


Ford,  Paul  Leicester,  666 

Fothergill,  Jessie,  475 

Fouque,  Friedrich  de  la  Motte,  171, 

172 
Fowler,    Ellen    Thorneycroft    (Mrs. 

Alfred  Felkin),  516. 
France,     Anatole    (Jacques    Anatole 

Thibaut),  129 
Frederick,  Harold,  652 
Freeman,  Mrs.:  see  Wilkins 
Freytag,  Gustav,  185 

Gaboriau,  Emile,  97,  98 
Galdos,  Benito  Perez,  147,  148 
Gait,  John,  265 

Gaskell,  EUzabeth,  Cleghorn  Steven- 
son, 327 
Gautier,  Thdophile,  76,  77 
Genlis,  De,  Stephanie,  11 
Glasgow,    Ellen    Anderson    Gholson, 

673 
Godwin,  William,  222 
Goethe,  Johann  Wolfgang  von,  167- 

169 
Gogol,  Nikolai  Vasilievitch,  677 
Goldsmith,  Oliver,  217 
Goncourt,  De,  Edmond  and  Jules,  87 
Grand,  Sarah,  481 
Grant,  James,  398 
Grant,  Robert,  647 
Gras,  Felix,  130 
Gray,  Maxwell  (Mary  Gray  Tuttiett), 

497 
Green,  Anna  Katherine  (Mrs.  Charles 

Rohlfs),  625 
Greene,  Mrs.  Franklin  Lynde  (Sarah 

Pratt  McLean),  651 
Grdville,  Henri  (Alice  Durand-Fleury) 

127 
Griffin,  Gerald,  308 
Grossi,  Tommaso,  152 
Guerrazzi,  Francesco  Domenico,  154 

Habberton,  John,  616 

Hacklander,  Friedrich  Wilhelm  von. 

183 
Haggard,  Henry  Rider,  488,  489 
Halevy,  Ludovic,  100,  loi 
Hamerton,  Philip  Gilbert,  432 
Harben,  William  Nathaniel,  656 
Harder,  Ludwig,  192 
Hardy,  Arthur  Sherburne,  629,  630 
Hardy,  Thomas,  448-451 
Harland,  Henry,  660 
Harland,   Marion   (Mrs.   Edward  P. 

Terhune),  593 
Harris,  Joel  Chandler,  633 
Harrison,  Constance  Cary  (Mrs.  Bur- 


CONTENTS— AUTHORS 


ton  Harrison),  626 

Harte,  Francis  Bret,  612 

Hartner,  Eva  (Emma  von  Tward- 
owska),  196 

Haufif,  Wilhelm,  175 

Hawthorne,  JuUan,  624 

Hawthorne,  Nathaniel,  554-559 

Hay,  John,  610 

Hay,  Mary  Cecil,  452 

Hearn,  Lafcadio,  644 

Hewlett,  Maurice,  502,  503 

Heyse,  Paul,  191 

Hichens,  Robert  Sm)i;he,  511,  512 

Hoffman,  Charles  Fenno,  561 

Holland,  Josiah  Gilbert,  581 

Holmes,  Oliver  Wendell,  566-568 

Homer,  i 

Hope,  Anthony  (Anthony  Hope  Haw- 
kins), 506 

Howard,  Blanche  Willis  (Mrs.  Von 
Teuffel),  627 

Howells,  William  Dean,  606,  607 

Hughes,  Thomas,  399 

Hugo,  Victor-Marie,  62-67 

Ingelow,  Jean,  395 

Irving,  Washington,  518,  519 

Jackson,  Helen  Hunt,  596 
Jacobs,  William  Wymark,  508 
James,  George  Payne  Rainsford,  281 
James,  Henry,  619,  620 
Jerome,  Jerome  Klapka,  496 
Jewett,  Sarah  Orne,  637 
Johnson,  Samuel,  208 
Johnston,  Mary,  670 
Johnston,  Richard  Malcolm^  583 
Jokai,  Maurus,  691 
Juncker,  Elisabetta,  195 

Keenan,  Henry  Francis,  623 
Kennedy,  John  Pendleton,  551 
Kimball,  Richard  Burleigh,  576 
Kingsley,  Charles,  381-386 
Kingsley,  Henry,  423,  424 
Kipling,  Rudyard,  513-516 
Kirk,  Ellen  Olney,  615 
Kjelland,  Alexander  Lange,  696 
Kock,  De,  Charles  Paul  18, 

Laboulaye,    Edouard    Rend    de  Le- 

febvre,  79 
Lamartine,  Alphonse  Marie  Louis  de, 

17 

Lang,  Andrew,  461 
Lepelletier,  Edmond,  131 
Lesage,  Alain-Rend,  6 
Lever,  Charles  James,  323,  334 


Lewald,  Fanny,  178 

Lewis,  Matthew  Gregory,  255 

Lie,  Jonas  Lauritz  Edemil,  694 

London,  Jack,  674 

Longfellow,  Henry  Wadsworth,  562 

Loti,    Pierre     (Louis    Marie    Julien 

Viaud),  138 
Lover,  Samuel,  278 
Ludlow,  James  Meeker,  614 
Lyall,  Edna  (Ada  Ellen  Bayly),  492 

Maartens,    Maarten    (Joost    Marius 

Willem  van  der  Poorten-Schwartz), 

690 
McCutcheon,  George  Barr,  668 
MacDonald,  George,  408 
Mackenzie,  Henry,  219 
Macleod,  Fiona  (William  Sharp),  491 
Macquoid,  Katherine  Sarah,  453 
Major,  Charles,  653 
Malot,  Hector,  95 
Manzoni,  Alessandro,  151 
Marlitt,  E.  (Eugdnie  John),  188,  189 
Marrj'at,  Frederick,  273-275 
Martineau,  Harriet,  282 
Massa,  De.  Philippe,  96 
Maturin,  Charles  Robert,  268 
Maupassant,  De,  Henri  Rend  Albert 

Guy,  134-137 
Maurier,  Du,  George  Louis  Palmella 

Busson,  434,  435 
Melville,  Herman,  578,  579 
Mendoza,  Diego  Hurtado  de,  143 
Meredith,  George,  415-417 
Mdrimde,  Prosper,  61 
Mille,  De,  James,  697 
Mitchell,  Donald  Grant,  582 
Moore,  George,  478,  479 
Moore,  John,  218 
Moore,  Thomas,  264 
More,  Hannah,  220 
Morier,  James,  267 
Morris,  William,  436 
Miihlbach,  Luise  (Clara  Mundt),  180- 

182 
Mulock,  Dinah  Maria  (Mrs.  George 

Lillie  Craik),  412,  413 
Murger,  Henri,  86 
Murray,  David  Christie,  463 
Musset,  De,  Alfred,  75 

Norris,  Frank,  671 

Norris,  William  Edward,  464 

Ohnet,  Georges,  132,  133 
Oliphant,  Laurence,  421 
Oliphant,  Margaret  Oliphant  Wilson, 
419,  420 


VI 


CONTENTS— AUTHORS 


Osborne,  Duffield  (Samuel  Duffield 

Osborne),  655 
Ouida  (Louise  de  la  Ram^e),  444,  445 

Parker,  Gilbert,  700 
Pater,  Walter  Horatio,  443 
Payn,  James,  425 
Peacock,  Thomas  Love,  270 
Pemberton,  Max,  507 
Phelps,  Elizabeth  Stuart  (Mrs.  Her- 
bert Dickinson  Ward),  622 
Phillpotts,  Eden,  504 
Poe,  Edgar  AUan,  563,  564 
Porter,  Jane,  262,  263 
Prentiss,  Elizabeth  Payson,  577 
Prdvost  D' Exiles,  Antoine  Francois,  8 
Pushkin,  Alexander  Sergyevitch,  676 

Quiller-Couch,  Arthur  Thomas,  505 
Quincey,  De,  Thomas,  271 

Radcliffe,  Anne  Ward,  224,  225 

Raimund,  Golo,  187 

Reade,  Charles,  353-365 

Reid,  Christian  (Mrs.  Frances  Fisher 

Tier  nan),  640 
Reuter,  Fritz,  177 
Rice,  James,  437 
Richardson,  Samuel,  201-203 
Richter,  Jean  Paul  Friedrich,  170 
Ritchie,  Leitch,  280 
Rives,  Amdhe  (Princess  Troubetzkoy), 

663 
Roberts,  Charles  George  Douglas,  698 
Roche,  Regina  Maria,  226 
Rousseau,  Jean  Jacques,  9 
Rowson,  Susanna  Haswell,  517 
Ruffini,  Giovanni  Domenico,  156 
Russell,  William  Clark,  459 

Sadlier,  Mrs.  James,  394 

Saintine,  Joseph  Xavier  Boniface,  20 

Sand,      George     (Amantine     Lucile 

Aurore  Dupin    Dudevant),  68-70. 

(See  also  32,  75.) 
Sandeau,  Jules,  78 
Savage,  Marmion  W.,  400 
Schreiner,  OUve,  703 
Schiicking,  Christoph  Bernhard  Levin, 

184 
Schultz,  Amdlie,  141 
Scott,  Michael,  272 
Scott,  Walter,  229-254 
Seawell,  Molly  Elliot,  658 
Serao,     Matilde     (Signora    Edoardo 

Scarfoglio),  162 
Shaw  George  Bernard,  482,  483 


Shelley,  Mary  Woflstonecraft  God- 
win, 277 

Sheppard,  Elizabeth  Sara,  422 

Shorthouse,  Joseph  Henry,  433 

Sienkiewicz,  H^nryk,  702 

Simms,  WilUam  Gilmore,  560 

Sinclair,  May,  501 

Smith,  Francis  Hopkinson,  611 

Smollett,  Tobias  George,  212-216 

Souvestre,  Emile,  74 

Spielhagen,  Friedrich  von,  190 

Spofford,  Harriet  Prescott,  601,  602 

Stael-Holstein,  De,  Anne  Louise  Ger- 
maine  Necker,  1 2.    (See  also  5  8, 60.) 

Steel,  Flora  Annie,  465 

Stendhal  (Marie-Henri  Beyle),  15,  16 

Stephens,  Ann  Sophia,  594 

Stepniak,  Sergius  (Sergius  Michae- 
lovitch  Kravtchinski),  685 

Sterne,  Laurence,  209,  210 

Stevenson,  Robert  Louis  Balfour,  466- 

474 
Stimson,    Frederic    Jesup    (J.    S.    of 

Dale),  650 
Stockton,  Francis  Richard,  600 
Stoddard,   Elizabeth  Drew   Barstow, 

585 
Stowe,  Harriet  Beecher,  570-573 
St.  Pierre,  De,  Henri  Jacques  Bernar- 

din,  10 
Sturleson,  Snorre,  4 
Stuart,  Ruth  McEnery,  645 
Sue,  Marie  Joseph  Eugene,  72,  73 
Swift,  Jonathan,  200 

Tarkington,  Newton  Booth,  669 
TautphcEus,     Jemima    Montgomery, 

Baroness,  176 
Taylor,  Bayard,  587 
Thackeray,     Anne     Isabella     (Mrs. 

Richmond    Ritchie)     (daughter   cf 

WiUiam    Makepeace    Thackeray), 

442 
Thackeray,  WilUam  Makepeace,  328^ 

337.     (See  also  320.) 
Theuriet,  Claude  Andrd,  99 
Thompson,  Daniel  Pierce,  552 
Tolstoi,  Lyof  Nicolaievitch,  680-684 
Tourgee,  Albion  Winegar,  609 
Trollope,  Anthony,  367-372 
Trowbridge,  John  Townsend,  589,  599 
Turgeniev,  Ivan,  678,  679 

Verga,  Giovanni,  159 

Verne,  Jules,  93 

Vigny,  De,  AMred  Tictor,  19 

Virgil  (Publius  Virgilius  Maro),  2 

Voltaire,  Franjois-Marie  Arouet,  7 


CONTENTS— AUTHORS 


▼n 


Wallace,  Lewis,  591 
Walpole,  Horace,  211.   (See  also  672.) 
Ward,  Mary  Augusta  (Mrs.  Humph- 
ry Ward),  476 
Warner,  Charles  Dudley,  592 
Warner,  Susan,  580 
Warren,  Samuel,  326 
Weyman,  Stanley  John,  480 
Wharton,  Edith,  662 
Wilde,  Oscar  Fingall  O'Flahertie,  490 


Wilkins,  Mary  Eleanor  (Mrs.  Charles 

M.  Freeman),  661 
Wood,    Ellen    Price    (Mrs.    Henry 

Wood),  366 
Wyss,  Johann  Rudolf,  675 

Yonge,  Charlotte  Mary,  401 

Zangwill,  Israel,  510 
Zola,  Emile,  102-112 


II.   TITLES  OF  STORIES 

Note:  Numbers  refer,  to  analyses  on  pages  3  to  105 


Abb^  Constantin,  The,  100 

Abb^  Ivlouret's   Transgression,  The. 

104 
Abbot,  The,  241 
Abdullah,  79 
Abner,  Daniel,  656 
Absentee,  The,  228 
Adam  Bede,  387 
Mneid,  The,  2 
Afloat  and  Ashore,  542 
African  Farm,  An,  Story  of,  703 
Agiies  Grey,  396 
Agnes  of  Sorrento,  573 
Agnes  Surriage,  618 
AUce,  or  The  Mysteries,  293 
AU  Sorts  and  Conditions  of  Men,  438 
Alone,  593 
Alroy,  313 
Altiora  Pefo,  421 
Alton  Locke,  381 
Amelia,  207 

Andr<£e  de  Tavemey,  60 
Anglomaniacs,  The,  626 
Anna  Kar^nina,  681 
Anne  of  Geierstein:  or,  The  Maiden 

of  the  Mist,  252 
Antar,  The  Romance  of,  3 
Antiquary,  The,  231 
Antonina,  402 
Archibald  Malmaison,  624 
Armadale,  405 
Arne,  692 
Arthur  Gordon  Pym,  The  Narrative 

of,  563 
Ashes  of  Empire,  667 
Atala,  13 

At  Sunwich  Port,  508 
At  the  Red  GloVe,  453 
Aucassin  and  Nicolette,  5 
Auf  der  Hohe  (On  the  Heights),  179 
Ausdem  Leben  ehtes  Taugenichls  (The 

Happy-Go-Lucky),  174 
Avenger,  The,  271 
Awakening  of  Helena  Richie,  The,  6<;4 


Azarian^  601 


Bachelor's    Establishment,    A 

manage  de  gar(on),  36 
Bachelor  of  the  Albany,  The,  400 
Bad  Boy,  The  Story  of  a,  603 


(Un 


Barchester  Towers,  368 

Barnaby  Rudge,  342 

Barry  Lyndon,  329 

Beatrice  Cenci,  154 

Beatrix,  32 

Bel  Ami,  136 

Belle-Rose,  80 

Ben  Hur,  591 

Benefits  Forgot,  659 

Berlin  and  Sans-Souci,  181 

Bessy  Conway,  394 

Betrothed,  The  (Manzoni),  151 

Betrothed,  The  (Scott),  248 

Black  Arrow,  The,  471 

Black  Dwarf,  The,  232 

Black  Tulip,  The  {La  tulipe  noire), 

57 
Bleak  House,  346 
Blithedale  Romance,  The,  557 
Bohemian  Life,  86 
Bothwell,  398 

Bow  of  Orange  Ribbon,  A,  597 
Boyne  Water,  279 
Brave  Lady,  A,  413 
Bravo,  The  530 
Breadwinners,  The,  610 
Bride  of  Lanimermoor,  The,  236 
Bnmhilde.  146 

Caleb  Williams,  222 

Called  Back,  462 

Camille,  88 

Can  You  Forgive  Her?  370 

Cape  Cod  Folks,  651 

Captain  Fracasse,  77 

Captain  of  the  Janizaries,  The,  614 

Captains  Courageous,  514 

Captain's  Daughter,  676 

Cardinal's  Snuff-Box,  The,  660 

Career  of  a  Nihilist,  The,  685 

Carlotta's  Intended,  645 

Carmen,  61 

Cashel  Byron's  Profession,  483 

Casting   Away   of   Mrs.    Leeks  and 

Mrs.    Aleshine,    The:     The   Dus- 

antes,  600 
Castle  Dangerous,  254 
Castle  of  Otranto,  The,  21 1 
Castle  Rackrent,  227 
Catherine:    A  Story,  328 


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CONTENTS— TITLES  OF  STORIES 


iX 


Catherine  de'  Medici,  35 

Caxtons,  The,  300 

C^sar  Birotteau,  31 

Chainbearer,  The,  544 

Charles  Auchester,  422 

Charles  O'Malley,  323 

Charlotte  Temple,  517 

Chartreuse  of  Parma,  The,  16 

ChevaUer  de  Maison-Rouge,  The,  53 

Chicot  the  Jester,  49 

Childe  Christopher  and  Goldilind  the 
Fair,  436 

Children  of  the  Abbey,  The,  226 

Children  of  the  Ghetto,  510 

Choir  Invisible,  The,  639 

Chouans,  The,  21 

Christie  Johnstone,  354 

Cid,  The,  142 

Cinq-Mars,  19 

Circuit  Rider,  The,  605 

Clarissa  Harlowe,  202 

Claude's  Confession,  102 

Clemenceau  Case,  The,  89 

Cloister  and  the  Hearth,  The,  358 

Coelebs  in  Search  of  a  Wife,  220 

Colette,  The  Story  of,  141 

Collegians,  The,  308 

Colonel  Carter  of  Cartersville,  611 

Colonel's  Opera  Cloak,  The,  617 

Coming  Race,  The,  304 

Confession  d'un  enfant  de  sihle  (Con- 
fession of  a  Child  of  the  Century), 

75 

Confessions  d'un  ouvrier  (Confessions 
of  a  Workingman),  74 

Confessions  of  a  Child  of  the  Cen- 
tury {Confession  d'un  enfant  de 
sihle),  75 

Confessions  of  a  Workingman  {Con- 
fessions d'un  ouvrier),  74 

Coningsby,  316 

Conquest  of  Rome,  The,  162 

Conscience,  95 

Conscript,  The,  186 

Consuelo,  69 

Contarini  Fleming,  312 

Cord  and  Creese,  697 

Corinne,  12 

Corsican  Brothers,  The  {Les  freres 
corses),  46 

Cosmopolis,  139 

Count  of  Monte  Cristo,  The,  44 

Count  Robert  of  Paris,  253 

Countess  de  Charny,  The,  59 

Country  Doctor,  A,  637 

Country  Doctor,  The,  25 

Cousin  Bette,  39 

Cousin  Pons,  40 


Cranford,  327 

Crater,  The,  546  ^ 

Crime  of  the  Opdra,  The,  90 
Cudjo's  Cave,  590 

Daisy  Miller,  619 

Dame  aux  camellias.  La  (Camille),  88 
Damiano,  157 

Damnation  of  Theron  Ware,  The,  652 
Daniel  Deronda,  393 
Das   Geheimniss   der   alien   Mamsell 
(The  Old  Mam'selle's  Secret),  188 
David  Balfour,  472 
David  Copperfield,  345 
David  Elginbrod,  408 
Dead  Souls,  677 

Debacle,  Le  (The  Downfall),  no 
Debit  and  Credit  {Soil  und  Haben), 

185 
Decameron,  The,  149 
Deemster,  The,  477 
Deerslayer,  The,  537 
Deliverance,  The,  673 
Devereux,  286 

Diana  of  the  Crossways,  417 
Die    Wahlverwandtschaften    (Elective 

Afl&nities),  169 
Disowned,  The,  285 
Distinguished  Provincial  at  Paris,  A, 

33 

Divine  Fire,  The,  501 

Doctor  Antonio,  156 

Doctor  Johns,  582 

Dombey  and  Son,  344 

Donovan,  492 

Don  Quixote,  144 

Dorothy  South,  613 

Dorothy  Vernon  of  Haddon  Hall,  653 

Dosia,  127 

Dossier  No.  1 13,  Lc  (File  No.  1 13),  97 

Double  Marriage,  A:  or,  White  Lies, 
356 

Double  Thread,  A,  516 

Downfall  The  {Le  D^bdcle),  no 

Drink  {L'Assommoir),  105 

Duke  of  Stockbridge,  The,  643 

Dusantes,  The,  and  The  Casting 
Away  of  Mrs.  Leeks  and  Mrs.  Ale- 
shine,  600 

East  Lynne,  366 

Eben  Holden,  657 

Eddas,  The,  4 

Egoist,  The,  416 

Elective  Affinities  {Die  Wahlver- 
wandtschaften), 169 

Eleventh  Commandment,  The  {Vuti' 
decimo  comandamento).  158 


CONTENTS— TITLES  OF  STORIES 


Elsa,  696 

Elsie  Veaner,  566 

Emma,  259 

Enchantment  {L'incantesimo),  165 

Endymion,  320 

Epicurean,  The,  364 

Ernest  Maltravers,  292 

Esther  Waters,  478 

Ettore  Fieramosca,  153 

Eugene  Aram,  288 

Eugenie  Grandet,  26 

Evangelist,  The,  120 

Evelina,  221 

Evelyn  Innes,  479 

Fair  Maid  of  Perth,  The:  or  St.  Val- 
entine's Day,  251 

Falkland,  283 

Fall  of  the  House  of  Usher,  The,  564 

Fallen  Idol,  A,  487 

Family  Feud,  A,  192 

Fanshawe,  554 

Far  from  the  Madding  Crowd,  448 

Fashion  and  Famine,  574 

Fathers  and  Sons,  678 

F/condit/,  La  (Fruitfulness),  11 1 

Felix  Holt,  the  Radical,  391 

Ferdinand,  Count  Fathom,  The  Ad- 
ventures of,  214 

File  No.  113  {Le  Dossier  No.  113),  97 

First  Violin,  The,  475 

Fisher-Maiden,  The,  693 

Fiskerjenten  (The  Fisher-Maiden),  693 

Fool's  Errand,  A,  909 

Footsteps  of  a  Throne,  The,  507 

Forbidden  Fruit  {Namenlose  Gesich- 
ten),  183 

Forest  Lovers,  The,  502 

Fortunes  of  Nigel,  The,  243 

Forty-Five  Guardsmen,  The,  50 

Foul  Play,  361 

Frankenstein:  or,  The  Modern  Pro- 
metheus, 277 

Frhes  Corses,  Les  (The  Corsican 
Brothers),  46 

Friends:   a  Duet,  622 

Friendship,  445 

Fromont  and  Risler,  114 

Fruitfulness  {La  j^condile),  11 1 

Gabriel  Conroy,  612 
Gabriel  Tolliver,  633 
Garden  of  Allah,  The,  512 
Gentleman  from  Indiana,  The,  669 
Gentleman  of  France,  A,  480 
Gerfaut,  71 
Germinal,  T08 
Giant's  Robe,  The,  485 


Gil  Bias,  6 

God  and  the  Man,  458 
Godolphin,  289 
God's  Fool,  690 
Golden  House,  The,  592 
Good-Bye,  Sweetheart,  446 
Gordian  Knot,  The,  379 
Grandison,  Sir  Charles,  History  of,  203 
Grandissimes,  The,  621 
Grannarna  (The  Neighbors),  686 
Graustark,  668 
Graziella,  17 
Great  Expectations,  350 
Green  Carnation,  The,  511 
Green  Mountain  Boys,  The,  552 
Grettir  The  Outlaw,  431 
Greyslaer,  561 
Griffith  Gaunt,  360 
Guardian  Angel,  The,  567 
Guenn,  627 

Gulliver's  Travels,    200 
Gunmaker  of  Moscow,  The,  584 
Gunnar,  695 
Guy  Mannering,  230 
Guzman  d'Alfarache,   Life  and  Ad- 
ventures of,  145 

Hajji  Baba  of  Ispahan,  The  Adven- 
tures of,  267 

Hammer  UTid  Amboss  (Hammer  and 
Anvil),  190 

Hammer  and  Anvil  (Hammer  und 
Amboss),  190 

Han  d'Islande  (Hans  of  Iceland),  62 

Handy  Andy,  278 

Hans  Brinker:  or,  the  Silver  Skates, 
608 

Hans  of  Iceland  (Han  d'Islande),  62 

Happy-Go-Lucky,  The  (Aus  dem 
Leben  eines  Taugenichts) ,  174 

Hard  Cash,  359 

Hard  Times,  347 

Harold,  299 

Headlong  Hall,  270 

Headsman,  The,  532 

Heart  of  Midlothian,  The,  235 

Heavenly  Twins,  The,  481 

Heidenmauer,  The,  531 

Heideprinzesschen  (A  Little  Moorland 
Princess),  189 

Heir  of  Redclyffe,  The,  401 

He  Knew  He  was  Right,  372 

Helen's  Babies,  616 

Henrietta  Temple,  314 

Henry  Esmond,  The  History  of,  332 

Henry  Masterton,  281 

Henry  the  Eighth  and  His  Court,  i8e 

Hereward  the  Wake,  386 


CONTENTS— TITLES  OF  STORIES 


XI 


Herr  Paulus,  439 

Historic  d'un  conscrit  de   1813  (The 

Conscript),  i86 
Home    as    Found    and   Homeward 

Bound,  534 
Home  Influence,  377 
Homo  Sum,  194 

Honorable  Peter  Stirling,  The,  666 
Horseshoe  Robinson,  551 
Hour  and  the  Man,  The,  282 
House  in  Bloomsbury,  A,  420 
House  of  Mirth,  The,  662 
House  of  the  Seven  Gables,  The,  556 
Hulda,  178 

Humphrey  Clinker,  216 
Hypatia,  382 
Hyperion,  562 

Iliad,  The,  i 

//  Santo  (The  Saint),  160 

Immortal,  The,  121 

Indiana,  68 

Inheritance,  The,  269 

Initials,  The,  176 

Ink-Stain,  The  {Un  tache d'encr e),ij\o 

Innocencia,  701 

In  Paradise,  igi 

In  the  Days  of  My  Youth,  428 

In  the  Year  '13,  177 

Intruder,  The,  (L'lnnocente),  163 

Iron  Heart,  The,  175 

Ironmaster,  The  (Le  mattre  des  forges), 

133 
Irrational  Knot,  The,  482 
It  's  Never  Too  Late  to  Mend,  355 
Ivanhoe,  238 

Jack,  115 

Jack  Sheppard,  322 

Jack  Tier,  547 

Jacqueline,  126 

Jane  Eyre,  373 

Jane  Field,  661 

Japhet  in  Search  of  a  Father,  273 

John  Godfrey's  Fortunes,  587 

John  Halifax,  Gentleman,  412 

John  Inglesant,  433 

John  Marchmont's  Legacy,  441 

Jonathan  Wild,  205 

Joseph  Andrevifs,  The  Adventtires  of, 

204 
Joseph  Balsamo,  54 
Joshua  Marvel,  430 
Journey  in  Other  Worlds,  A,  664 
Jtd}  errant,  Le  (The  Wandering  Jew), 

73 
Jungle  Book,  The,  515 


Kenelm  Chillingly,  305 

Kenilworth,  242 

Kidnapped,  470 

King  Noanett,  650 

King  of  the  Mountains,  The  [Le  roi 

des  montagttes),  92 
King  Solomon's  Mines,  488 
Kings  in  Exile  (Rois  en  eocil),  117 
Kreutzer  Sonata,  The,  682 

Labor  {Le  Travail),  112 

La  Conquista  di  Roma  (The  Con- 
quest of  Rome),  162 

Lady  Audley's  Secret,  440 

Lady  of  Quality,  A,  636 

Lady  Rose's  Daughter,  476 

La  femme  de  trente  ans  (A  Woman  of 
Thirty),  23 

La  Fiammetta,  150 

Lamplighter,  The,  588 

Land,  The  (La  Terre),  109 

La  peau  de  chagrin  (The  Magic  Skin), 
22 

L'Assommoir  (Drink),  105 

Last  Days  of  Pompeii,  The,  290 

Last  of  the  Barons,  The,  297 

Last  of  the  Mohicans,  The,  525 

Lavengro,  309 

Lawrie  Todd,  265 

Lazarillo  de  Tonnes,  143 

Lazarre,  628 

Leavenworth  Case,  The,  625 

Legend  of  Montrose,  A,  237 

Legend  of  Sleepy  Hollow,  The,  519 

Leiden  des  jungen  Werther,  Die  (The 
Sorrows  of  Young  Werther),  167 

Leila,  or  the  Siege  of  Grenada,  294 

Le  lys  dans  la  valUe  (The  Lily  of  the 
Valley),  29 

Lx  Maitre  des  forges  (The  Ironmaster), 

^33 
Le  roi  des  montagnes  (The  King  of  the 

Mountains),  92 
Les  illusions  perdues  (Lost  Illusions), 

30 
Les  Miserables,  64 
L'homme  a  Voreille  cassee  (The  Man 

with  the  Broken  Ear),  91 
Vhomme    qui    rit    (The    Man    Who 

Laughs),  66 
Life,  A  {Une  vie),        135 
Light  that  Failed,  The,  513 
Lilac  Sunbormet,  The,  500 
Lily  of  the  Valley,  The  {Le  lys  dans 

la  valine)  29 
L'incantesimo  (Enchantment),  165 
L'innocente  (The  Intruder),  163 
Lionel  Lincoln,  534 


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CONTENTS— TITLES  OF  STORIES 


Lion's  Brood,  The,  655 

Little  Dorrit,  348 

Little  Lord  Fauntleroy,  635 

Little  Minister,  The,  499 

Little  Moorland  Princess,  A  {Heide- 
prinzesschen),  189 

Little  Parish  Church,  The  (La  petite 
paroisse),  123 

Little  Savage,  The,  275 

Little  Women,  599 

Lodsen  og  hans  Hustru  (The  Pilot  and 
His  Wife),  694 

Looking  Backward,  642 

Lorna  Doone,  411 

Lost  Illusions  (Les  illusions perdues),  30 

Lost  Sir  Massingberd,  425 

Lothair,  319 

Louis  Lambert,  24 

Louisa  de  Clermont,  11 

Love  Me  Little,  Love  Me  Long,  357 

Lovel  the  Widower,  336 

Lover's  Heart,  The  (Decameron),  149 

Lucretia,  298 

L'undecimo  comandamento  (The  Elev- 
enth Commandment),  158 

Lusiad,  The,  197 

Lys  rouge,  Le  (The  Red  Lily),  129 

Macleod  of  Dare,  457 

Madame  Bovary,  82 

Madame  Chrysanthfeme,  138 

Madame  Sans-Gene,  131 

Madeleine,  78 

Mademoiselle  de  Maupin,  76 

Mademoiselle  Duval,  loi 

Magic  Skin,  The  {La  peau  de  chagrin), 

22 
Maid  of  Belleville,  The  (La  pucelle  de 

Belleville),  18 
Malavoglia,  The,  159 
Man  and  Wife,  407 
Man  of  FeeUng,  The,  219 
Manon  Lescaut,  8 
Mansfield  Park,  258 
Man   Who   Laughs,   The   {Uhomme 

qui  rit),  66 
Man   with  the   Broken   Ear,   The 

(L'komme  d  Voreille  cassde),  91 
Marble  Faun,  The,  558 
Marco  Visconti,  152 
Margarethe,  195 
Margherita  Pusterla,  155 
Marguerite  de  Valois,  48 
Marianela,  148 

Marie  Antoinette  and  Her  Son,  182 
Marius,  the  Epicurean,  443 
Martin  Chuzzlewit,  343 
Master  and  Man,  683 


Master  of  Ballantrae,  The:  A  Win- 
ter's Tale,  469 

Meister  of  the  Ceremonies,  The,  429 

Mauprat,  70 

Max  Havelaar,  689 

Mayor  of  Casterbridge,  The,  450 

Melmoth  the  Wanderer,  268 

Member  for  Arcis,  The,  41 

Memoire  d'un  medicin  (Memoirs  of  a 
Physician),  55 

Memoirs  of  a  Physician,  The,  55 

Memoirs  of  Barry  Lyndon,  The,  329, 

Mercedes  of  Castile,  536 

Middle  Classes,  The,  42 

Middlemarch,  392 

Midshipman  Easy,  Mr.,  274 

Miles  Wallingford,  543 

Mill  on  the  Floss,  The,  388 

Minister's  Wooing,  The,  572 

Mistress  Regained,  The  (Decameron), 
149 

Moby  Dick,  579 

Modem  Instance,  A,  606 

Modeste  Mignon,  38 

Monarch  of  Mincing  Lane,  The,  454 

Monastery,  The,  240 

Money-Makers,  The,  623 

Monikins,  The,  533 

Monk  of  Fife,  A,  461 

Monk,  The,  255 

Monsieur  de  Camors,  85 

Monsieur  Lecoq,  98 

Mont  Oriol,  134 

Moods,  598 

Moonstone,  The,  406 

Morgesons,  The,  585 

Mortal  Antipathy,  A,  568 

Morton  House,  640 

Mother's  Recompense,  The,  378 

Mr.  Isaacs,  648 

My  Novel,  301 

Mysteres  de  Paris,  Les  (The  Mysteries 
of  Paris),  72  . 

Mysteries  of  Paris,  The,  72  II 

Mysteries  of  Udolpho,  The,  225  ^' 

Mystery  of  Edwin  Drood,  The,  352 

Nabob,  The,  116 
Nameless  Nobleman,  A,  595 
Namenlose      Gesichten      (Forbidden 

Fruit),  183 
Nana,  107 
Nancy,  447 
Narrative   of    Arthur  Gordon    Pym, 

The,  563 
Neighbor  Jackwood,  589 
Neighbors,  The  (Grannarna),  686 
Newcomes,  The,  333 


CONTENTS— TITLES  OF  STORIES 


xiu 


New  H^lolse,  The  (La  Nouvelle  H4- 

loise),  9 
New  Race,  A,  187 
Nicholas  Nickleby,  340  ■ 
Nick  of  the  Woods,  553 
Night  and  Morning,  295 
'Ninety-Three,  67 
No  Name,  404 
Northanger  Abbey,  261 
Norwood,  575 
Not  Angels  Quite,  646 
Notre  Dame  de  Paris,  63 
Nouvelle    Heloise,    La    (The    New 

Hdloise,)  9 
Numa  Roumestan,  118 

Oak  Openings,  The,  548 
Off  the  Skelligs,  395 
Old  Curiosity  Shop,  The,  341 
Old    Mam'selle's   Secret,    The    {Das 
Geheimniss  der  alteii  Mamselt),  188 
Old  Mortality,  233 
Old  Myddleton's  Money,  452 
Oldtown  Folks,  571 
Oliver  Twist,  339 
On  Both  Sides,  631 
On  the  Face  of  the  Waters,  465 
On  the  Heights  {Au}  der  Hohe),  179 
Ordeal  of  Richard  Feverel,  The,  415 
Orley  Farm,  369 

Oroonoko:   or.  The  Royal  Slave,  198 
O.  T.,  687 
Our  Mutual  Friend,  351 

Page  d' amour,  un  (A  Page  of  Love),  106 

Page  of  Love,  A,  106 

Page  of  the  Duke  of  Savoy,  The,  52 

Pamela,  201 

Papa  Bouchard,  658 

Parisians,  The,  306 

Passd  Rose,  630 

Pathfinder,  The,  535 

Paul  and  Virginia,  10 

Paul  Bronckhorst,  184 

Paul  Clifford,  287 

Paul  Kelver,  496 

Pausanias  the  Spartan,  307 

Pearce  Amerson's  Will,  583 

Peg  Woffington,  353 

Pelham,  284 

Pendennis,  330 

Pere  Goriot,  27 

Peregrine  Pickle,  213 

Persuasion,  260 

Peter  Ibbetson,  434 

Peter  Schlemihl,  173 

Petite  paroisse,  La  (The  Little  Parish 

Chiurch),  123 
Peveril  of  the  Peak,  244 


Pharais,  491 

Philip,  The  Adventures  of,  337 

Picciola,  20 

Pickwick  Papers,  338 

Picture  of  Dorian  Gray,  The,  490 

Pierre  and  Jean,  137 

Pilot,  The,  523 

Pilot  and  His  Wife,  The  (Lodsen  og 

Hans  Hustru),  694 
Pioneers,  The,  522 
Pirate,  The,  239 

Pit,  The:   A  Story  of  Chicago,  671 
Portrait  of  a  Lady,  The,  620 
Prairie,  The,  527 
Precaution,  520 
Pride  and  Prejudice,  257 
Prince  Otto,  467 
Princess  of  Thule,  A,  456 
Prince  Zilah,  125 
Prisoner  of  Zenda,  The,  506 
Professor,  The,  376 
PromessiSposi,  I  (The  Betrothed),  151 
Pucelle  de  Belleville,  La  (The  Maid  ot 

BeUeville),  18 
Put  Yourself  in  His  Place,  362 

Quarante-cinq,    Les   (The    Forty-Five 

Guardsmen),  50 
Quatre-vingt  treize  ('Ninety-Three),  67 
Queen's  Necklace,  The,  56 
Quentin  Durward,  245 
Quick  or  the  Dead,  The,  663 
Quo  Vadis?  702 

Ramona,  596 

Rasselas,  History  of,  The,  208 

Ravenshoe,  424 

Ready-Money  Mortiboy,  437 

Recollections  of  Geoffry  Hamlyn,  423 

Red  and  Black  {Rouge  et  noir),  15 

Redgauntlet:  A  Tale  of  the  Eighteenth 

Century,  247 
Red  Lily,  The  (Le  lys  rouge  ),  129 
Red  Pottage,  495 
Red  Rover,  The,  526 
Redskins,  The,  545 
Reds  of  the  Midi,  The,  130 
Reine    des    bois,    La    (A    Woodland 

Queen),  99 
Rend,  14 

Rende  Mauperin,  87 
Resurrection,  684 
Return  of  the  Native,  The,  449 
Reynard  the  Fox,  166 
Richard  Carvel,  672 
Richard  Yea-and-Nay,  503 
Rienzi:   Last  of  the  Tribunes,  291 
Right  of  Way,  The,  700 
Rip  Van  Winkle,  518 


XIV 


CONTENTS— TITLES  OF  STORIES 


Rise  of  Silas  Lapham,  The,  607 

Rita:   An  Autobiography,  426 

Robber  of  the  Rhine,  The,  280 

Robinson  Crusoe,  199 

Rob  Roy,  234 

Roderick  Random,  212 

Rogue,  The,  464 

R(>is  en  exil  (Kings  in  Exile),  117 

Roman  Singer,  A,  649 

Romance  of  a  Poor  Young  Man,  The 

{Le    roman    d'lm     pauvre     jeune 

liomme),  84 
Romance  of  a  Schoolmaster,  The  (7/ 

romanzo  d'un  maestro),  161 
Romance  of  the  Forest,  The,  224 
Romance  of  Two  Worlds,  A,  509 
Romance    of   Youth,    A    {Toute   via 

jeunesse),  128 
Roman  d'un  jeune  homme  pauvre,  Le 

(The  Romance  of  a  Poor  Young 

Man),  84 
Romanzo  d'un  maestro,  II  (The  Ro- 
mance of  a  Schoolmaster),  161 
Romola,  390 
Rose  and  Ninette,  122 
Rouge  et  Noir  (Red  and  Black),  15 
Ruth  Hall,  569 

St.  Ives,  474 

St.  Leger,  576 

St.  Ronan's  Well,  246 

Saint,  The  (7/  Santo),  160 

Salammbo,  82 

Salathiel,  266 

Salem  Chapel,  419 

Samuel  Brohl  and  Company,  94 

Sappho,  119 

Saragossa,  147 

Satanstoe,  541 

Scarlet  Letter,  The,  555 

Scenes  de  la  vie  de  Boh^me  (Bohemian 

Life),  86 
Schonberg-Cotta  Family,  The,  418 
Scottish  Chiefs,  The,  263 
Sea  Lions,  The,  549 
Sea-Wolf,  The,  674 
Sense  and  Sensibility,  256 
Sentimental  Education,  83 
Sentimental  Journey,  A,  210 
Septimus  Felton,  559 
Serge  Panine,  132 
Seraphita,  28 
Sevenoaks,  581 
Severa,  196 
Sforza,  632 

Shabby-Genteel  Story,  A,  334 
She,  489 
Shirley,  375 


Silas  Marner,  389 

Silence     of     Dean     Maitland,    The 

497 
Simpleton,  A,  364 
Sintram  and  His  Companions,  172 
Sir  Charles  Grandison,  203 
Sir  Launcelot  Greaves,  The  Adven* 

tures  of,  215 
Sister  to  Evangeline,  A,  698 
Sky  Pilot,  The,  699 
Small  House  at  Arlington,  The,  371 
Smoke,  679 

Soldiers  of  Fortune,  665 
Soil  und  Haben  (Debit  and  Credit),  185 
Sons  of  the  Morning,  504 
Sorrows  of  Werther,  The  {Die  Lieden 

des  jungen  Werther),  167 
Soutien  de  Famille,  Le  (The  Support 

of  the  Family),  124 
Splendid  Spur,  The,  505 
Spy,  The,  521 
Start  in  Life,  A  (Un  ddbut  dans  la  vie), 

37 
Stepping  Heavenward,  577 
Stillwater  Tragedy,  The,  604 
Story  of  Margaret  Kent,  The,  603 
Strange  Adventures  of  a  Phaeton,  The, 

455 
Strange  Case  of  Dr.  Jekyll  and  Mr. 

Hyde,  The,  468 
Strange  Story,  A,  303 
Study  in  Scarlet,  A,  493 
Summer  in  Arcady,  638 
Support  of  the  Family,  The  {Le  SoU' 

tien  de  Famille),  124 
Swiss  Family  Robinson,  The,  675 
Sybil:   or.  The  Two  Nations,  317 

Taking  the  Bastile,  58 

Tale  of  Two  Cities,  A,  349 

Talisman,  The,  249 

Tancred,  318 

Tartarin  of  Tarascon,  113 

Tenant  of  Wildfell  Hall,  The,  397 

Ten  Nights  in  a  Bar-room,  565 

Ten  Thousand  a  Year,  326 

Terre,  La  (The  Land),  109 

Terriljle  Temptation,  A,  363 

Tess  of  the  D'Urbervilles,  451 

Thaddeus  of  Warsaw,  262 

That  Lass  o'  Lovme's,  634 

Thdrese  Raquin,  103 

Thief  in  the  Night,  The,  602 

Three  Miss  Kings,  The,  460 

Three    Musketeers,    The    {Les    trots 

mousquetaires),  43 
Three  Rings,  The  (Decameron),  149 
Timar's  Two  Worlds,  691 


CONTENTS— TITLES  OF  STORIES 


XV 


Tinted  Venus,  The,  486 

Titan,  170 

To  Have  and  to  Hold,  670 

Toilers  of  the  Sea,  65 

Tom  Brown's  School  Days,  399 

Tom  Burke  of  Ours,  324 

Tom  Cringle's  Log,  272 

Tom  Jones,  The  History  of,  206 

Toule   ma  jeunesse   (A   Romance   of 

Youth),  128 
Tower  of  London,  The,  321 
Travail,  Le  (Labor),  112 
Travailleurs  de  la  mer  (Toilers  of  the 

Sea),  65 
Treasure  Island,  466 
Trilby,  435 
Trionjo  della  morte,  II  (The  Triumph 

of  Death),  164 
Tristram  Shandy,  209 
Triumph  of  Death,   The   (//  trionfo 

della  morte),  164 
Trois  mousquetaires,  Les  (The  Three 

Musketeers),  43 
Trumps,  586 

Tulipe  Noire,  La  (The  Black  TuUp) ,  5  7 
Twenty  Thousand  Leagues  Under  the 

Sea.  (Vingt  mille  lieues  sous  les  mers), 

93 
Twenty  Years  After  {Vingt  ans  apres), 

45 
Two  Admirals,  The,  538 
Two  Baronesses,  The,  688 
Two  Dianas,  The,  51 
Two  Years  Ago,  384 
Typee,  578 

Uarda,  193 

Uncle  Tom's  Cabin,  570 

Un  ddbut  dans  la  vie  (A  Start  in  Life), 

Under  Two  Flags,  444 

Undine,  171 

Une  Vie  (A  Life),  135 

Unleavened  Bread,  647 

U71  manage  de  gargon  (A  Bachdor's 

Establishment),  36 
Un  tache  d'encre  (The  Ink-Stain),  140 
Ursule  Mirouet,  34 

Valentine  Vox,  325 

Vanity  Fair,  331 

Vathek:   An  Arabian  Tale,  223 

Venetia,  315 

Verdant  Green,  Mr.,  Adventures  of, 

414 
Vicar  of  Wakefield,  The,  217 
Vice  Versa,  484 
Vicomte  de  Bragelonne,  The,  47 


Village  on  the  Cliff,  The,  442 

Villette,  375 

Viugt  ans  aprh  (Twenty  Years  AfterX 

.45 
Vingt    mille    lieues    sous    les    mers 

(Twenty  Thousand  Leagues  Under 

the  Sea),  93 
Virginians,  The,  335 
Vivian  Grey,  310 
Voyage  of  Discovery,  A,  427 

Waiting  for  the  Verdict,  594 
Wandering    Jew,   The    (JLe   juij   #r« 

rant),  73 
War  and  Peace,  680 
Warden,  The,  367 
Water  Babies,  The,  385 
Water  Witch,  The,  529 
Waverley,  229 

Way  of  the  World,  The,  463 
Ways  of  the  Hour,  550 
Weir  of  Hermiston,  473 
Wenderholme,  432 
Wept  of  Wish-ton -wish.  The,  528 
Westward  Ho!  383 
What  WiU  He  Do  With  It?    302 
Wheel  of  Fire,  A,  641 
Which  Shall  It  Be?  409 
White  Company,  The,  494 
White  Lies,  356 
Wide,  Wide  World,  The,  580 
Wife's  Revenge,  The  (Decameron)  ,149 
Wilhelm  Meister's  Apprenticeship,  168 
Willy  Reilly,  276 
Wind  of  Destiny,  The,  629 
Window  in  Thrums,  A,  498 
Wing  and  Wing,  539 
Woman-Hater,  A,  365 
Woman  in  White,  403 
Woman  of  Thirty,  A  {La  jemme  de 

trente  ans),  23 
Wondrous  Tale  of  Alroy,  The,  313 
Woodland    Queen,   A   (La  reine  det 

hois),  99 
Woodstock:   or,  The  Cavalier,  250 
Wooing  o't.  The,  210 
Wreck  of  the  Grosvenor,  The,  459 
Wuthering  Heights,  380 
Wyandotte,  540 

Yemassee,  The,  560 
Young  Duke,  The.  311 
Youma,  644 

Zanoni,  296 
Zadig,  7 
Zeluco,  218 
Zibeline,  96 


ANALYSIS    OF    THE    WORLD'S 
GREAT   STORIES 


Analysis  of  the  World's  Great  Stories. 


Giving  the  chief  elements  of  each  in  the  order  of  their  importance; 
the  central  idea;  and  any  distinctive  features  tliere  may  be  in  plot, 
historical  reference,  delineation  of  character,  etc.  The  authors  are 
arranged  by  countries,  in  the  chronological  order  of  their  births,  the 
date  of  the  earliest  author  of  each  country  fixing  the  order  of  coun- 
tries. By  reading  the  stories  in  this  order,  a  complete  course  of  study 
in  the  world's  greatest  fiction,  from  the  earliest  times  to  the  present, 
classified  both  by  countries  and  authors,  may  be  obtained.  All  these 
elements,  special  features,  etc.,  are  covered  in  a  general  index  follow- 
ing this  list  of  stories. 


GREECE. 


HOMER    (NINTH    CENTURY    B.    C),    XIX,    261. 

1.  The  Iliad,  X.  326.     1.  Mythology.     2.  War.     The  tale  of  the  siege  of 

Troy,  in  which  legendary  heroes,  such  as  Achilles,  Agamemnon,  Mene- 
laus,  Diomed,  etc.,  of  the  Greeks,  contend  with  Hector,  Paris,  ^neas, 
etc.,  of  the  Trojans,  the  heroes  being  assisted  by  the  partisan  gods,  Athene, 
Hera,  Aphrodite,  Ares,  etc.  The  tale  ends  with  the  death  of  Hector  at 
the  hands  of  Achilles,  and  the  victor's  dragging  him  behind  his  chariot. 

ROME. 

TIRGH.    (70    B.    C.-19    B.    C),    XIX,    413. 

2.  The    JEvtElu,    XVH.    129.     1.  Poetry.     2.  Legend.     .3.  Mythology.     An 

epic  of  the  legendary  founding  of  the  Latin  kingdom,  recounting  the 
martial  exploits  of  gods  and  heroes. 

ARABIA. 

3.  The  Romance  of  Antar  (sixth  century),  L  312.     1.  Heroism.     2.  War. 

3.  Love.  An  Arabian  epic  narrating  the  adventures  in  war  and  love  of 
an  heroic  mulatto  chief. 


4         ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S    STORIES 

ICELAND. 

SAEMOND    SIGFUSSON    (TWELFTH    CENTURY,    A.    D.). 
SNORRE   STURLESON    (1179-1841),    XIX.    39S. 

4.  The  Eddas  (12th  and  13th  centuries  A.   D.),  VIII.  128.     1.  Mythology. 

2.  Poetry.  Collections  of  sagas,  giving  the  Norse  cosmogony  and 
m)fthology. 

FRANCE. 

5.  AUCASSIN  AND  NicOLETTE  (12th  Century),  I.  362.     1.  Love.     2.  Adven- 

ture. The  story  of  the  troubled  course  of  love  between  a  brave  youth 
and  fair  maiden,  which  ended  happily.     Written  in  archaic  poetic  diction. 

ALAIX-RENE    LE    SAGE  (1668-1747),    XIX.    291. 

6.  Gil  Blas   (1735),   XI.   391.     1.  Adventure.     2.  Character.     3.  History. 

4.  Spanish  Life.  A  tale  of  rambling  adventure  among  all  classes  in  Spain, 
in  the  first  half  of  the  lyth  century.  The  narrator  writes  himself  down 
as  a  rascal,  among  other  shady  transactions  procuring  a  mistress  for  the 
Crown  Prince,  afterward  Philip  IV. 

TOLTAIRE    (1694-1778),    XIX.    414. 

7.  Zadig    (1760),    XVII.    135.     1.  Detection.     2.  Wisdom.     3.  Adventure. 

A  Babylonian  philosopher  uses  his  reason  in  unfolding  mysteries,  detect- 
ing crimes,  solving  puzzles,  etc.,  and  by  his  wisdom  wins  a  princess  and 
a  kingdom. 

ABBE    PREVOST    (1697-1763),    XIX.    345. 

8.  Manon   Lescaut    (1731),   XIII.    279.     1.  Love.     2.  Pathos.     A   young 

student  of  theology  becomes  infatuated  with  a  young  woman,  a  courtesan 
by  nature,  and  gives  up  his  career  to  live  with  her.  He  is  separated  from 
her  by  his  father.  Later,  he  sees  her  about  to  be  transported  to  Louisi- 
ana with  other  loose  women,  and  forsakes  all  to  accompany  her  thither, 
where  he  wins  her  in  fight  from  the  man  to  whom  she  has  been  assigned, 
and  flees  with  her  into  the  wilderness.  She  dies,  and  he  hollows  her  a 
grave  in  the  sand  with  his  hands,  and  lies  upon  it  to  await  death,  from 
which  welcome  end  he  is  saved  to  pass  his  life  in  sadness. 

JEAN    JACQUES    ROUSSEAU  (1712-1778),    XIX.    354. 

9.  The  New  Heloise  (1760),  XIV.  119.     1.  Love.     2.  Ethics.     A  giri  has 

an  amour  with  her  tutor  whom  it  is  impossible  for  her  to  marry.  Later, 
she  marries,  and  reveals  her  past  to  her  husband,  who  forgives  her,  and 
permits  her  to  continue  a  close  friendship  with  the  lover,  and,  when  she 
dies,  wills  that  he  tutor  her  children. 

BERNARDIN    DE    SAINT-PIERRE    (1737-1814),    XIX.    129. 

10.  Paul  and  Virginia  (1788),  VI.  374.     1.  Youth.     2.  Love.     3.  Trag- 

edy.    A  low-born  lad  and  high-born  maid,  playmates  on  the  Isle  of 


ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES         5 

Mauritius,  love  each  other  in  idyllic  fashion,  but  are  separated  by  the 
summons  of  the  girl  to  France  by  a  rich  aunt.  She  remains  true  to  her 
lover,  and  refuses  to  marry  the  choice  of  her  aunt,  who  disinherits  her 
and  sends  her  home.  She  is  wrecked  in  sight  of  her  lover,  and  he  grieves 
himself  to  death. 

STEPHANIE    FELICITIE    DE    GENLIS    (174ft-1830),    XIX.    118. 

11.  Louisa  de  Clermont  (1802),  VI.  255.     1.  Ethics.     2.  Love.     3.  Trag- 

edy. A  princess  loves  a  nobleman  of  inferior  rank,  being  attracted  by 
his  high  moral  qualities.  He  nobly  resigns  her  to  the  claims  of  the  State 
which  point  to  a  higher  alliance  for  her.  But  she  refuses  to  let  him 
go  and  secretly  marries  him.  They  are  separated  by  her  brother  and 
the  lover  is  mortaUy  wounded  in  hunting,  leaving  her  determined  to  re- 
main his  widow  for  life. 

MADAME    DE    STAEL.    (1766-1817),     XIX.    132. 

12.  CoRiNNE     (1807),     VI.   385.       1.  Travel.      2.  Love.      3.  Pathos.      A 

young  Scotch  nobleman  traveling  through  Italy,  meets  and  is  at- 
tracted by  an  authoress.  She  becomes  his  mistress,  but  learning  of  a 
former  amour  of  hers,  he  returns  to  a  sweetheart  at  home.  The  mistress 
follows  him,  but,  discovering  the  purity  and  devotion  of  the  Scotch 
sweetheart,  returns  to  Italy  without  revealing  herself. 

FRANCOIS  BENE  AUGUSTE  DE  CHATEAUBRIAND  (1768- 
1848),  XIX.  90. 

13.  Atala  (1801),  IV.  372.     1.  American  Indian  Life  and  Character.     2. 

Love.  3.  Religion.  The  romance  of  two  Indian  lovers,  one  of  whom 
dying,  enjoins  the  other  that  he  become  a  Christian.  This  he  does  and 
suffers  martyrdom. 

14.  Rtat  (1802),  IV.  378.     1.  American  Indian  Life  and  Character.     2.  In- 

cestuous Love.  3.  Religion.  A  sequel  to  Atala.  The  hero,  a  French- 
man, finding  that  his  sister  has  immured  herself  in  a  convent  because 
of  her  incestuous  love  for  him,  which  he  had  not  suspected,  flees  to 
America  and  marries  an  Indian  maiden,  but  is  not  able  to  escape  his 
melancholy,  despite  the  appeals  of  a  missionary  to  turn  to  religion. 

(HERE    MAT    FOLLOW    173.) 

STENDHAL  [HENRI  BETLE]  (1783-1842).  XIX.  384. 
16.  Red  and  Black  (1830),  XV.  419.  1.  Ambition.  2.  Religion.  3. 
Tragedy.  An  ambitious  young  man  enters  the  priesthood  for  purposes 
of  selfish  advancement.  To  prove  to  himself  his  attractions,  he  seduces 
a  married  woman,  and  makes  the  daughter  of  a  noble  his  mistress. 
The  jealous  wife  betrays  him,  and  he  shoots  her.  She  is  only  wounded, 
but  he  admits  his  murderous  intention,  and  is  guillotined,  both  of  the 
women  who  loved  him  attending  him  to  the  last. 


6         ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES 

16.  The  Chartreuse    of    Parma  (1840),  XV.  431.     1.  History.     2.  The 

Church.  3.  .Adventure.  An  ambitious  young  Italian,  after  a  number 
of  exciting  adventures,  contrives  to  join  Napoleon's  army  in  time  to  fight 
at  Waterloo.  Returning  to  Italy,  he  is  helped  in  his  career  by  a  duchess 
who  loves  him.  He  enters  the  priesthood.  He  kills  a  man  in  self- 
defence,  is  arrested  for  the  murder,  makes  love  to  the  jailer's  daughter, 
and  escapes  by  help  of  her  and  the  duchess.  On  the  death  of  the 
jailer's  daughter,  he  distributes  his  property  and  enters  a  monastery, 
where  he  shortly  dies. 

ALPHOXSE    M.    L.    BE   L.AMABTINE    (1790-1869),    XIX.    288. 

17.  Graziella   (1849),    XI.    365.     1.  Autobiography.     2.  Italian   Life.     3. 

Love.  A  love  story,  recalling  the  author's  own  experiences  on  the  Isle 
of  Ischia. 

CHARLES    PAUL.    DE    KOCK    (1794-1871),    XIX.    131. 

18.  The  Maid  of  Belleville  (1830),  VI.  279.     1.  Character.     2.  Intrigue. 

3.  Humor.  A  demure  French  girl  has  various  escapades  with  lovers, 
for  which  she  contrives  that  another  girl  be  blamed.  The  sly  puss 
suffers  no  penalties  for  her  trickeries;  her  friend  forgives  her,  and  both 
are  happily  married. 

ALFRED    DE    VIGNT    (1797-1863),    XIX,    133. 

19.  Cinq-Mars   (1826),   VI.   392.     1.  History.     2.  Conspiracy.     3.  Adven- 

ture. A  romance  of  derring-do,  founded  on  the  historic  conspiracy  of 
the  Marquis  de  Cinq-Mars,  during  the  reign  of  Lotus  XIII.  The  king, 
his  queen,  Anne  of  Austria,  Marie  de  Gonzaga,  Cardinal  Richelieu, 
and  Father  Joseph,  appear  as  characters  in  the  story. 

XAYIER    SAINTINE    [JOSEPH    FRANCOIS    BONIFACE] 

(1798-1866),    XIX.    369. 

20.  PicciOLA  (1832),  XIV.  167.     1.  Imprisonment.     2.  Religion.     3  Love. 

4.  Botany.  5.  History.  A  political  prisoner,  a  conspirator  against 
Napoleon  I.,  takes  a  deep  interest  in  the  growth  of  a  flower  between  the 
flagstones  of  his  prison  yard.  The  daughter  of  a  fellow  prisoner  loves 
him  for  his  tenderness  to  the  flower,  and,  when  it  withers  for  lack  of 
soil,  journeys  to  the  Empress  Josephine  to  plead  for  its  relief,  and  se- 
cures this  and  also  his  pardon.  An  agnostic,  he  is  converted  to  belief 
in  God  by  the  study  of  the  plant. 

HONORE    DE    BALZAC    (1799-1860),    XIX.    36. 

21.  The  Chouans  (1829),  II.  47.     1.  History.     2.  Revenge.     3.  Love.     A 

story  of  the  insiurection  in  La  Vendee.  A  woman  spy  loves  the  man 
she  is  sent  to  capture,  and  by  so  doing  causes  the  death  of  the  soldiers 
of  her  side  by  his  command.  She  plans  revenge,  and,  repenting  too 
iate,  dies  with  her  lover. 


ANALYSIS    OF   THE    WORLD'S    STORIES         7 

22.  The  Magic  Skin  (1831),  II.  58.     1.  Magic.     2.  Symbolism.     3.  Self- 

indulgence.  4.  Nemesis.  A  young  man  becomes  possessed  of  a  magic 
piece  of  leather,  which  enables  him  to  gratify  any  wish,  but  at  the  ex- 
pense of  its  size,  which  measures  his  life  span.  He  dies  of  self-indulgence. 
His  sweethearts,  an  evil  and  a  good  genius,  typify,  one,  Illusion,  the 
other.  Society. 

23.  A   Woman    of    Thirty    (1832),   II.    66.     1.  Character.     2.  Marriage. 

3.  Motherhood.  4.  Nemesis.  5.  History.  Six  stories  grouped  around 
the  character  of  an  ambitious  woman,  who  is  an  unfaithful  wife  and 
loveless  mother,  punished  at  last  for  her  sins.  Napoleon  I.  appears  in 
the  first  story. 

24.  Louis    Lambert    (1832),    II.    97.     1.  Philosophy    (Swedenborgianism). 

2.  Medicine.  3.  Love.  The  romance  of  a  mystical  genius,  a  follower 
of  Emanuel  Swedenborg,  who  fell  into  a  catalepsy  on  the  day  set  for  his 
wedding,  and  was  faithfully  attended  thereafter  by  her  who  was  to  have 
been  his  wife. 

25.  The  Country  Doctor  (1833),  II.  88.   1.  Character.     2.  Philanthropy. 

3.  Medicine.  A  Paris  physician  is  jilted  by  his  betrothed  on  her  dis- 
covery that  he  has  a  natural  son.  The  death  of  this  son  following,  the 
physician  retires  to  a  country  district  and  devotes  himself  to  good  works, 
adopting  orphans,  etc.  He  dies  in  harness  greatly  beloved.  Inci- 
dentally the  story  contains  an  idealization  of  Napoleon  I.  by  an  old 
peasant,  one  of  his  soldiers. 

26.  Eugenie  Grandet  (1834),  II.  95.     1.  Love.     2.  Pathos.     3.  Avarice. 

4.  Character.  The  story  of  a  self-sacrificing  daughter  of  a  miser,  who 
devotedly  loved  a  fortune-seeker  and  place-hunter,  and  secretly  aided 
him  although  he  had  jilted  her. 

27.  PfeRE   GoRiOT  (1835),  II.   106.     1.  Pathos.     2.  Family  Love.     3.  Par- 

isian Life.  The  story  of  a  father  who  gave  all  of  his  substance  and 
soul,  and  finally  his  Ufe,  to  two  heartless,  ambitious  daughters.  It  con- 
tains, incidentally,  a  graphic  picture  of  life  in  a  Parisian  lodging-house. 

28.  Seraphita  (1835),  II.   117.     1.  Mysticism.     2.  Swedenborgianism.     3. 

Symbolism.  The  story  of  a  mystical  being,  appearing  as  a  man  to  a 
feminine  admirer,  a  woman  to  a  masculine  lover,  who  is  represented  as 
the  spiritual  manifestation  of  Swedenborg,  and  who  symbolizes  celestial 
perfection. 

29.  The  Lily  of  the  Valley  (1836),  II.    129.     1.  Character.     2.  Love. 

3.  Pathos.  4.  Symbolism.  The  story  of  a  man  who  expected  to  find 
all  feminine  perfections  in  one  woman,  and  whose  various  loves  discard 
him  because  of  his  praises  of  qualities  in  other  women  lacking  in  them- 
selves. One  love  is  a  married  woman,  whose  renunciation  of  him  for 
her  daughter  strikes  a  note  of  pathos  in  the  book.  This  woman,  and 
her  complement  in  character,  another  object  of  the  man's  affection,  sum 
up  the  ideal  of  earthly  feminine  perfection. 


8         ANALYSIS   OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES 

30.  Lost   Illusions   (1837),   II.    140.     1.  Business   (Printing  and   Paper* 

making).  2.  Rascality.  3.  Heroism.  4.  Parisian  Society.  A  story 
of  business  rivalry  and  intrigue,  in  which  the  hero  (an  inventor)  and 
heroine  (his  wife)  are  mined,  but  retire  with  honor  to  a  happy  life  in 
the  country.  The  sub-plot  is  one  of  social  intrigue,  in  which  the  central 
character  is  a  selfish,  ambitious  poet. 

31.  CfeSAR  BiROTTEAU  (1838),  II.  151.     1.  Business  (Perfumery).     2.  Ras- 

cality. 3.  Loyalty.  A  story  of  the  rise,  decline,  and  rehabilitation 
in  fortune  and  honor  of  a  Parisian  manufacturer.  The  loyalty  of  his 
chief  clerk  is  the  dominant  note  of  the  romance. 

32.  Beatrix     (1839),     II.      162.     1.    Love.     2.    History.      3.    Character. 

4.  Social  Rivalry.  The  story  of  a  young  man's  pure  first  love,  and 
how  two  older  women,  rivals  in  literary  and  artistic  society,  make  it  a 
pawn  in  their  game  of  intrigue.  The  originals  of  the  rivals  were  "  George 
Sand"  and  "Daniel  Stern,"  and  of  other  characters,  Liszt  and  Gus- 
tave  Blanche. 

33.  A  Distinguished  Provincial  at  Paris    (1839),    173.      1.    Parisian 

Society.  2.  Rascality.  3.  Journalism.  4.  Pathos.  The  hero  is  the 
chief  figure  in  the  sub-plot  of  "Lost  Illusions"  (30).  His  rise  and 
fall  in  Parisian  society  and  journalism  are  depicted,  ending  with  the 
pathetic  death  in  poverty  of  his  mistress. 

34.  Ursule     Mirouet  (1841),  II.  184.     1.  Love.     2.  Rascality.     3.  Mes- 

merism. 4.  Religion.  A  materialistic  physician  is  converted  to  Cathol- 
icism by  the  faith  of  his  granddaughter,  and  the  performance  of  a 
mesmerist.  The  girl  loves  a  young  nobleman  and  persuades  her  grand- 
father to  rescue  him  from  prison  where  he  is  held  for  debt.  Relatives 
try  to  separate  not  only  the  lovers,  but  grandchild  and  grandparent, 
overwhelming  the  girl  with  sorrows,  from  which  she  finally  emerges 
triumphant. 

36.  Catherine  De'  Medici  (1841),  II.  193.  1.  History.  2.  Religion. 
3.  Astrology.  A  romance  of  the  career  of  a  queen  who  sacrificed  every- 
thing to  preserve  and  strengthen  her  dominion.  Francis  II.,  Mary, 
Queen  of  Scots,  Charles  IX.,  Henry  IV.,  Calvin,  and  other  of  her  con- 
temporaries appear  in  the  story.  She  is  represented  as  a  devotee  of 
astrology. 

36.  A  Bachelor's  EsTABLiSHMENT(1843),  II.  212.     1.  Character.     2.  Gam- 

bling. 3.  Art.  4.  History.  A  story  of  the  interplay  of  various  types 
of  character,  the  most  notable  being  two  brothers^  one  a  dissipated 
gambler,  the  other,  a  hard-working  artist.  The  introduction  relates  to 
events  of  the  French  Revolution  and  the  empire  of  Napoleon  I. 

37.  A  Start  in  Life  (1844),  II.  223.     1.  Character.     2.  Business.     3.  Par- 

isian Life.  The  story  of  a  raw,  blundering  youth,  who  by  his  erro*-* 
gets  repeated  set-backs  in  his  career,  but,  profiting  by  his  experienct.., 
finally  attains  success. 


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38.  MoDESTE  MiGNON  (1844),  II.   233.     1.  Love.     2.  Comedy.      A   young 

girl,  debarred  from  the  acquaintance  of  men,  imagines  herself  in  love 
with  a  poet,  whose  works  she  admires,  and  writes  him  a  virtual  declara- 
tion of  love.  His  secretary  corresponds  with  the  girl  in  the  poet's  name, 
and  finally  impersonates  him.  The  girl  being  an  heiress,  the  poet  him- 
self becomes  a  suitor,  leading  to  a  comedy  situation  resulting  happily 
in  the  marriage  of  the  girl  and  the  secretary. 

39.  Cousin  Bette(  1846),  II.  244.     1.  Character.     2.  Rascality.     3.  Honor. 

4.  Pathos.  The  story  of  a  family,  and  of  the  conflict  of  noble  and 
ignoble  designs  of  its  members,  with  tragic  effects.  The  titular  character 
is  an  old  maid  who  has  been  slighted,  especially  in  a  love  matter,  by  her 
rich  relatives,  and  who  achieves  her  revenge. 

40.  Cousin     Pons     (1847),     II.     255.     1.  Character.     2.  Antiquarianism' 

3.  Friendship.  4.  Rascality.  5.  Pathos.  The  story  of  a  friendship 
between  an  antiquary  and  a  musician,  and  of  the  shabby  treatment  of 
the  antiquary  by  his  relatives. 

41.  The  Member  for    Arcis  (1854),    II.  266.     1.  Politics.     2.  Intrigue. 

A  story  of  political  intrigue  connected  with  a  contest  for  a  seat  in  the 
French  Parliament. 

42.  The  Middle  Classes  (1854),  II.  277.     1.  Psychology.     2.  Rascality. 

3.  Detection.  The  story  of  an  adventurer  and  his  dupe,  and  the  frus- 
tration of  the  rascal's  designs  by  a  detective. 

ALEXANDRE    DUMAS    [PERE]    (1802-1870),    XIX.    160. 

43.  The  Three  Musketeers  (1844),  VII.    307.  1.  History.     2.  Adventure. 

3.  Melodrama.  The  story  of  four  comrades-in-arms,  who  serve  the 
Queen  of  France,  and  outwit  her  enemy  Cardinal  Richelieu  and  his 
clever  agent,  a  female  criminal.  The  agent  is  discovered  to  be  the  evil 
wife  of  one  of  the  Musketeers.  His  private  execution  of  her  is  the 
tragic  climax  of  the  story.  Historic  characters  are  Louis  XIII.,  his 
queen,  Richelieu,  and  the  Duke  of  Buckingham. 

44.  The    Count    of    Monte    Cristo    (1844),    VII.    319.     1.  Revenge. 

2.  Crime.  3.  Adventure.  4.  Wealth.  An  innocent  man  is  im- 
prisoned by  two  men  covetous,  one  of  his  place,  one  of  his  wife. 
He  cleverly  escapes  from  prison,  gains  possession  of  a  great  store  of 
treasure,  and  incognito  wreaks  a  terrible  vengeance  on  his  enemies. 

46.  Twenty  Years  After  (1845),  VII.  331.  1.  History.  2.  .Adventure. 
A  continuation  of  "The  Three  Musketeers."  The  four  Musketeers 
take  service  under  Cardinal  Mazarin,  the  power  behind  the  throne  of 
Louis  XIV.  They  aid  him  in  the  insurrection  of  the  Fronde,  and  he 
sends  them  to  England  to  aid  Cromwell.  Instead  they  attempt  to  rescue 
Charles  I.  of  England  from  the  block.  In  this  they  are  foiled  by  the  son 
of  the  criminal  woman  of  "The  Three  Musketeers  "  (43).     Returning 


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to  France  they  are  imprisoned  by  the  Cardinal,  but  soon  reverse  the 
situation  by  imprisoning  him;  he  ransoms  himself  by  giving  the  four 
Musketeers  rewards  and  dignities. 

46.  The  Corsican  Brothers   (1845),   VII.   342.    1.  Psychic  Phenomena. 

2.  Revenge.  Twins,  one  in  Paris,  one  in  Corsica,  are  in  telepathic 
accord  with  each  other.  The  Parisian  brother  is  killed  in  a  duel,  and 
the  Corsican  at  once  is  mysteriously  made  cognizant  of  the  fact,  and, 
setting  out  for  Paris,  he  challenges  and  kills  the  duellist. 

47.  The  Vicomte  de  Bragelonne  (1845),  VII.  350.     1.  History.     2.  Ad- 

venture. A  continuation  of  "Twenty  Years  After"  (45).  The  four 
Musketeers  aid  in  restoring  Charles  II.  of  England  to  his  throne. 
With  the  son  of  one  of  them  (the  titular  hero),  they  are  implicated  on 
opposing  sides  in  the  troubles  between  Fouquet  and  Louis  XIV.  Maz- 
arin,  Cond^,  Colbert,  Queen  Anne  of  Austria,  Queen  Henrietta  Maria, 
and  General  Monk  also  appear  in  the  story. 

48.  Marguerite    de    Valois    (1845),    VII.  361.     1.  History.     2.  Intrigue. 

3.  Tragedy.  The  first  of  the  "Queen  Margery"  series.  Queen  Mar- 
guerite of  Valois,  sister  of  Charles  IX.  and  wife  of  Henry  of  Navarre,  later 
Henry  IV.,  is  the  central  figure  of  a  mesh  of  political  and  amorous  in- 
trigue. The  Massacre  of  St.  Bartholemew  is  the  dominating  situation. 
Historical  characters  are:  Charles  IX.,  his  brother  Henry,  Henry  of 
Navarre,  Marguerite,  Coligny,  Guise,  Alenjon,  and  Catherine  de' 
Medicis. 

49.  Chicot    the    Jester    (1845),    VII.    372.     1.  History.     2.  Adventure. 

The  second  of  the  "Queen  Margery"  series.  Adventures  of  minions  of 
the  court  of  Henry  III.,  chief  of  whom  is  Bussy  d'Amboise.  He  is  in 
love  with  a  lady  of  the  court,  whose  husband  leads  a  band  of  assassins 
against  him,  whom  he  annihilates  before  he  is  slain.  The  plot  centers 
around  the  conspiracy  of  the  Holy  League  to  make  the  Duke  of  Anjou 
king.  Catherine  de'  Medicis,  Henry  of  Navarre,  and  Alenjon  also 
appear  in  the  novel. 

50.  The  Forty-Five  Guardsmen  (1846),  VII.  382.     1.  History.     The  third 

of  the  "Queen  Margery"  series.  It  relates  the  exploits  of  a  band  of 
guards  of  Henry  III.,  and  the  revenge  of  Bussy  d'Amboise's  mistress 
on  his  murderers,  one  of  whom  was  the  Duke  of  Anjou.  The  book 
ends  with  the  alliance  of  Henry  III.  with  Henry  of  Navarre  against  the 
Holy  League,  under  the  Duke  of  Guise,  and  the  assassination  of  Henry 
III. 

51.  The  Two  Dianas  (1846),  VII.   392.    1.  History.   The  young  Count  Mont- 

gomery finds  that  his  sweetheart  Diana,  daughter  of  Diana  of  Poitiers, 
has  been  married  to  another  by  the  order  of  Henry  II.,  who  admits  he 
is  her  father.  She  becomes  a  widow,  and  the  Count  is  informed  that 
another  bar  remains  between  them — Diana  of  Poitiers  was  his  father's 
mistress,  and  the  count  may  be  her  daughter's  half-brother.    The 


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daughter  is  immured  in  a  convent.  It  is  captured  by  the  English,  with 
whom  the  French  are  at  war.  The  Count  Montgomery  storms  the  place 
and  rescues  her,  only  to  see  her  immured  again  in  a  convent.  By  acci- 
dent he  kills  the  king  in  a  tourney.  He  enters  the  rehgious  wars  as  a 
Huguenot;  is  captured,  and  beheaded.  The  Duke  of  Guise,  Coligny, 
Catherine  de'  Medicis,  Francis  H.,  and  Mary  Stuart  also  appear  as 
characters  in  the  story. 

52.  The  Page  of  the  Duke  of   Savoy  (1846),   VII.   400.     1.  History. 

2.  Magic.  The  same  historical  events  are  treated  as  in  "The  Two 
Dianas"  (51).  A  page  of  a  royal  duke  is  a  girl  in  disguise.  A  tender 
but  pure  relation  subsists  between  the  two;  she  is  a  prophetess,  and 
warns  him  of  dangers  ahead. 

53.  The   Chevalier    de    Maison-Rouge   (1846),   VII.    411.     1.  History. 

The  hero  is  a  royalist  conspirator  during  the  Revolution;  ha  plots  with 
a  woman  to  rescue  Queen  Marie  Antoinette  from  prison.  Two  revo- 
lutionists, one  in  love  with  her,  are  involved  by  a  series  of  circumstances. 
The  conspiracy  fails,  and  the  conspirators  are  executed. 

54.  Joseph    Balsamo    (1848),    VII.     422.     1.  History.     2.  Charlatanism. 

3.  Hypnotism.  A  romance  founded  on  the  career  of  Cagliostro,  the 
charlatan.  The  names  of  Swedenborg,  Fairfax,  Paul  Jones,  Lavater, 
Ximenes,  Rousseau,  and  Voltaire  are  introduced.  Louis  XV.  and  his 
mistress  Du  Barry  enter  into  the  story,  and  Balsamo  predicts  the  fate 
of  Marie  Antoinette. 

66.  Memoirs  of  a  Physician  (1848),  VIII.  1.  1.  History.  2.  Charlatan- 
ism. 3.  Hypnotism.  4.  Tragedy.  A  continuation  of  "  Joseph  Bal- 
samo" (54).  It  ends  with  the  death  of  Louis  XV.  Louis  XVI.,  Marie 
Antoinette,  Madame  Du  Barry,  Rousseau,  and  Marat  are  introduced 
in  the  story.  Balsamo's  medium,  who  is  also  his  wife,  is  murdered  by 
an  old  magician. 

66.  The  Queen's   Necklace  (1848),  VIII.  12.     1.  History.    2.  Crime  and 

its  Detection.  3.  Charlatanism.  4.  Hypnotism.  A  continuation  of 
"Memoirs  of  a  Physician"  (55),  containing  the  same  elements  of 
hypnotism  and  magic.  Balsamo,  now  known  as  Cagliostro,  prophesies 
the  fates  of  various  nobles.  Mesmer  is  a  character  in  the  story.  The 
plot  narrates  the  theft  of  Marie  Antoinette's  diamond  necklace  by  a 
clever  adventuress  who  impersonates  and  compromises  the  Queen. 
Exposure  of  the  woman  exonerates  the  Queen,  but  the  necklace  is 
lost.  Madame  Du  Barry,  Cardinal  de  Rohan,  and  Louis  XVI.  also 
appear  in  the  story. 

67.  TheBlackTulip(1850),  VIII.  23.     1.  History.     2.  Flowers.     3.  Trag- 

edy. A  tale  of  the  "tulip  mania"  of  Holland,  in  which  the  rivalry  of 
two  tulip-growers  is  implicated  vrith  the  political  events  of  the  time. 
The  execution  of  the  De  Witt  brothers,  and  the  administration  of  William 
of  Nassau  are  described. 


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68.  Taking  the  Bastile  (1853),  VIII.  31.  1.  History.  A  tale  of  the  be- 
ginning of  the  French  Revolution.  A  farmer  and  his  workman  are 
represented  as  leaders  of  the  assault  on  the  Bastile.  Louis  XVI.,  Marie 
Antoinette,  M.  Necker,  and  Madame  de  Stael,  Lafayette,  and  De 
Launay,  Governor  of  the  Bastile,  appear  in  the  story. 

59.  The  Countess  of  Charnay  (1853),  VIII.  42.     1.  History.     2.  Charla- 

tanism. 3.  Invention.  Cagliostro  reappears  as  the  central  figure 
of  a  group  of  revolutionary  conspirators,  including  St.  Just  and  the 
Duke  of  Orleans.  Other  new  characters  are  Mirabeau,  Guillotine 
(inventor  of  the  beheading-machine),  and  Robespierre.  Former  char- 
acters are  Louis  XVI.  and  Marie  Antoinette  (whose  arrested  flight 
from  Versailles  is  described),  Marat,  and  Lafayette. 

60.  Andr^e    de    Taverney    (1855),    VIII.    53.     1.  History.     2.  Tragedy. 

The  execution  of  Louis  XVI.  and  of  Marie  Antoinette  is  the  central 
scene.  The  chief  actors  in  the  French  Revolution  appear:  Bailly, 
Lafayette,  Brissot,  Condorcet,  Robespierre,  Marat,  Danton,  Narbonne, 
Dumouriez,  Madame  de  Stael,  Madame  Roland,  Napoleon  Bonaparte, 
Rouget  de  I'lsle  (composer  of  the  Marseillaise),  Vergniaud,  and  Cag- 
liostro, who  bears  the  name  of  Zanoni. 

PROSPER    MERIMEE    (1803-1870),    XIX.    318. 

61.  Carmen  (1847),  XII.  317.     1.  Spanish  Life  and  Character.     2.  Tragedy. 

A  Spanish  gipsy  girl,  a  smugglers'  spy  and  their  decoy,  tires  of  her 
jealous  lover,  and  submits  herself  to  be  killed  by  him  rather  than  live 
with  him. 

VICTOR    HUGO    (1803-1885),    XIX.    265. 

62.  Hans    of    Iceland    (1823),    XL    1.     1.  Melodrama.     2.  Imaginatic>n. 

A  fantastic  tale  of  ferocious  passions  and  bloody  deeds.  The  scene  is 
laid  in  Norway. 

63.  Notre  Dame  de  Paris  (1831),  X.  388.     1.  Melodrama.     2.  Archaeol- 

ogy. A  wild  tale  of  a  gipsy  girl,  reputed  a  sorceress,  who  is  secretly 
beloved  by  a  humble  hunchback,  who  protects  her  from  villains,  and, 
when  she  is  hanged  as  a  vntch,  who  avenges  her.  The  scenes  are  laid 
in  and  about  the  old  cathedral  of  Paris,  which  is  described.  Mediaeval 
customs  are  depicted. 

64.  Les   Miserables    (1862),   X.    400.     1.  Ethics.     2.  Character.     3.  Ad- 

venture. 4.  History.  5.  Crime  and  its  Detection.  A  discharged 
convict  robs  a  priest  who  had  succored  him;  the  priest  shields  him. 
The  convict  is  converted,  and  becomes  a  good  and  useful  and  benevolent 
man.  He,  however,  is  hounded  by  a  detective,  faithful  to  his  ofl5ce. 
But  the  reformed  convict  saves  this  man  from  death  in  the  Revolution 
of  1832.  Then  the  detective  solves  the  conflict  of  duty  and  gratitude 
by  suicide.  The  ex-convict  is  exonerated  of  the  crime  for  which  the  de- 
tective pursued  him.  There  are  many  other  characters,  all  types  ex- 
pressive of  special  human  relations. 


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66.  Toilers  of  the  Sea  (1866),  X.  424.  1.  Sea  Life.  2.  Labor.  3.  Re- 
nunciation. 4.  Adventure.  A  sailor  salves  a  wrecked  vessel  with  end- 
less patience  and  marvellous  skill,  and  then  renounces  the  prize  of  his 
deed,  the  hand  of  the  shipowner's  daughter,  because  he  has  discovered 
she  loves  another.  While  working  on  the  wreck  he  has  a  desperate 
fight  with  a  giant  octopus. 

66.  The  Man  Who  Laughs   (1869),   XL    13.     1.  Melodrama.     2.  Love. 

3.  English  Aristocracy.  The  hero  has  been  stolen  and  made  a  mon- 
strosity as  a  child  for  use  by  a  mountebank.  The  heroine  is  a  blind 
companion.  They  love  each  other.  It  is  discovered  that  he  is  a  lord, 
and  he  takes  his  place  among  the  aristocracy  of  England,  the  vices  of 
whom  are  described.  Disgusted,  he  returns  to  the  heroine,  whom  he 
finds  dying.     He  drowns  himself  to  regain  her  in  the  other  world. 

67.  Ninety-Three    (1874),   XL    24.     1.  History.     2.  Tragedy.     3.  Ethics. 

A  tale  of  the  French  Revolution,  the  scene  of  which  is  laid  in  Brittany. 
A  battalion  of  Republicans  besiege  a  tower  defended  by  RoyaUsts,  who 
hold  three  children,  adopted  by  the  battalion,  in  the  upper  story.  The 
Royalists,  leaving  by  a  secret  way,  fire  the  town.  Their  leader  returns 
and  rescues  the  children,  at  the  cost  of  his  capture.  The  Republican 
leader  aids  him  to  escape,  and  is  sentenced  to  death  for  the  treason  by 
his  best  friend,  who,  upon  the  execution  of  the  sentence,  kills  himself. 
Robespierre,  Danton,  and  Marat  are  characters  in  the  story. 

GEORGE    SAND    [MADAME    DUDEVANT]    (1804-1876),  XIX.   360. 

68.  Indiana  (1832),  XIV.  181.     1.  Love.     2.  Fidelity.     3.  French  Colonial 

Life.  The  heroine  is  a  Creole  lady  in  the  Isle  of  Bourbon.  Unhappily 
married,  she  is  tempted  by  a  villain,  but  saved  by  a  devoted  friend,  whom 
she  finally  marries. 

69.  Consuela   (1842),   XIV.    193.     1.  Music.     The   career  of  an   Italian 

prima  donna.     Haydn  and  Porpora  appear  as  characters  in  the  story. 

70.  Matjprat    (1846),    XIV.    206.     1.  Love.     2.  Character.     The   hero,    a 

man  of  strong  passions,  is  reared  among  outlaws.  He  meets  a  refined 
woman,  who  loves  him,  but  who  refuses  to  yield  to  his  turbulent  wooing, 
until  her  confession  of  love  will  save  him  from  punishment,  when  she 
succumb^. 

CHARLES    DE    BERNARD    (1804-1850).    XIX.    115. 

71.  Gerfaut     (1838),     VI.     234.     1.  Seduction.     2.  Tragedy.     A     former 

lover  seduces  a  wife;  this  is  discovered,  and  her  husband  challenges 
him  to  a  duel.     The  husband  is  killed  and  the  wife  commits  suicide. 

EUGENE    SUE    (1804-1857),    XIX.    396. 

72.  The  Mysteries  OF  Paris  (1842),  XVI.  197.     1.  Social  Reform.     2.  Mel- 

odrama. A  story  of  the  life  of  the  poor  of  Paris,  depicting  abuses  of 
the  penal  system,  of  the  hospitals,  etc.    The  plot  is  one  of  wild  melodrama. 


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73.  The  Wandering  Jew  (1845),  XVI.  211.     1.  Legend.     2.  Imagination. 

3.  Melodrama.  Based  on  the  legend  of  the  Jew  Ahasuerus  condemned 
for  his  inhumanity  to  Christ  at  the  crucifixion  to  roam  the  earth  till 
Christ's  second  coming.  He  introduces  the  cholera  wherever  he  goes. 
This  motive  enters  but  slightly  into  the  plot,  which  is  one  of  romantic 
melodrama. 

EMILE    SOUVESTRE    (1806-1864),    XIX.    381. 

74.  Confessions  of  a  Workingman  (1851),  XV.  367.     1.  Labor.     2.  Edu- 

cation.    3.  Ethics.     The  career  of  a  mason,  showing  the  advantages  of 

industry,  honesty,  and  application  to  books. 

ALFRED    DE    MUSSET    (1810-1857),    XIX.    127. 

75.  Confessions  of  a  Child  of  the  Centxtry  (1836),  VI.  354.     1.  Auto- 

biography. 2.  Character.  A  neurotic  youth  finds  his  mistress  is 
deceiving  him,  and,  despite  her  protestations,  leaves  her.  He  falls  in 
love  with  a  widow,  and  yet  cannot  forget  his  false  mistress.  The  widow 
returns  his  love,  but,  older  than  himself,  realizes  his  mental  condition, 
and  offers  to  resign  him.  He,  however,  gives  her  up  to  a  better  man. 
The  story  is  based  on  the  author's  relations  with  George  Sand. 

THEOPHILE    GAUTIER    (1811-1872),    XIX.    201. 

76.  Mademoiselle  de  Maupin  (1835),  IX.   106.     1.  Adventure.     2.  Dis- 

guise. 3.  Love.  4.  Marriage.  A  woman  desires  to  see  men  as  they 
are,  and  so  goes  among  them  disguised  as  a  cavalier,  meeting  many  ad- 
ventures. Learning  the  weakness  of  her  own  sex  (she  is  beloved  by  a 
woman),  as  well  as  of  the  other,  she  disavows  matrimony. 

77.  Captain  Fracasse  (1863),  IX.   115.     1.  Adventure.     2.  The  Theatre. 

A  poor  yoimg  baron  joins  a  troupe  of  strolling  players,  and  meets  with 
more  romantic  adventures  in  real  life  than  they  performed  on  the  mimic 
stage. 

jrULES    SANDEAU    (1811-1883),    XIX.    361. 

78.  Madeleine   (1848),   XIV.    217.     1.  Labor.     2.  Love.     3.  Ethics.     An 

heiress  becomes  a  working-girl  to  save  her  lover  from  a  career  of  dissipa- 
tion. 

EDOUARD    LABOULATE    (1811-1883),    XIX,    287. 

79.  Abdullah  (1859),  XL  354.     1.  Oriental  Life.     2.  Youth.     3.  Imagi- 

nation. 4.  Ethics.  A  parable  concerning  selfishness  and  altruism, 
in  the  form  of  an  Oriental  tale. 

LOUIS    AMEDEE    ACHARD    (1814-1876),    XIX.    4. 

80.  Belle-Rose    (1850),   I.   27.     1.  Adventure.     2.  Love.     3.  Melodrama. 

A  low-bom  hero  aspires  to  the  hand  of  a  high-born  lady,  and  enters  the 
army  to  win  renown.     He  serves  the  king,  Louis  XIV.,  in  the  Low 


ANALYSIS   OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES        15 

Coiintries,  and  in  the  wars  of  1667  and  1672,  and,  after  a  melodra- 
matic career,  achieves  his  purpose. 

GUSTAVE   FLAUBERT    (1821-1880),    XIX.    186. 

81.  Madame  Bovary  (1857),   VIII.   367.     1.  Character.     2.  Marital   Infi- 

delity. 3.  Medicine.  The  wife  of  a  country  doctor  is  unfaithful  to 
him,  and,  to  escape  exposure,  commits  suicide.  The  husband  idealizes 
her,  until  her  past  is  exposed  by  old  letters. 

82.  SALAMMB5  (1862),  VIII.  378.     1.  History.     2.  Archaeology.     3.  Pagan- 

ism. 4.  War.  5.  Torture.  6.  Description.  A  romance  of  ancient 
Carthage  in  the  days  of  Hamilcar.  The  unpaid  mercenaries  besiege  the 
city.  Their  leader  steals  the  sacred  veil  of  the  patron  goddess  of  Car- 
thage, and  falls  in  love  with  her  priestess,  Salammbo.  She  is  sent  to 
recover  it  at  the  price  of  her  virtue.  But  the  rebel  general  grants  her  the 
veil  freely  and  sues  for  her  love  as  a  favor.  She  returns  vrith  the  veil 
to  the  city;  its  recovery  attracts  half  the  mercenaries  to  the  city's  side. 
Salammbo  is  married  to  their  leader.  The  rebel  general  is  captured, 
and  is  done  to  death  by  the  finger-nails  of  the  populace.  Description 
is  the  leading  feature  of  the  story. 

83.  Sentimental    Education  (1869),  VIII.  389.     1.  Character.     2.  Mar- 

riage. A  self-indulgent  young  law  student  in  Paris  devotes  himself  to 
women,  who  waste  his  time  and  money.  His  attempts  to  make  a  rich 
marriage  are  provokingly  frustrated  at  the  moment  of  seeming  success, 
and  he  returns  to  the  love  of  his  youth  to  find  her  married  to  a  better  man. 

OCTAVE   FEUnXET    (1821-1890),    XIX.    176. 

84.  The  Romance  of  a  Poor  Young  Man  (1858),  VIII.  301.     1.  Love. 

2.  Character.  A  steward  of  an  heiress,  distrustful  of  men,  loves  her, 
and  is  loved  in  return,  though  she  will  not  confess  it,  even  to  herself.  She 
is  betrothed  to  a  forttme-hunter.  The  steward  and  the  heiress  are 
locked  up  by  mischance  in  a  desolate  tov;er.  She  charges  him  that  it 
is  by  design.  He  tells  her  that  he  would  never  marry  her  while  he  is 
poor;  he  leaps  down  to  save  her  honor  and  is  injured.  Then  he  learns 
that  he  is  the  true  heir  of  her  wealth,  but  conceals  the  fact.  She  breaks 
with  her  fiance,  and  considers  giving  away  her  wealth.  Then  he  agrees 
to  share  the  inheritance  with  her. 

86.  Monsieur  de  Camors  (1867),  VIII.  310.  1.  Character.  2.  Selfish- 
ness. 3.  Ethics.  A  man  follows  a  code  of  heartless  self-gratification, 
left  him  by  his  father,  with  the  result  that  he  becomes  an  outcast,  feared 
and  shunned  by  his  associates,  his  wife,  and  even  the  child  he  loves. 

HENRI    MURGER    (1822-1861).    XIX.    327o 

86.  Bohemian  Life  (1848),  XIII.  23.  1.  Humor.  2.  Parisian  Student 
Life.  The  fantastic  deeds  of  the  Bohemian  denizens  of  the  Latin 
Quarter,  in  their  hand-to-mouth  existence. 


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EDMOND    DE    GONCOURT    (1822-1896);    JULES    DE    GON- 
COURT    (1830-1870),JiXlX.    119. 

87.  Ren^e    Mauperin     (1864),  VI.     264.     1.  Character.      2.  Tragedy. 

A  young  girl  of  strong  will  and  moral  nature,  secretly  attempts  to  unmask 
the  pretentions  of  her  immoral,  ambitious  brother,  and  thereby  causes 
his  death  in  a  duel.     She  dies  of  grief. 

ALEXANDRE    DUMAS    [FILS]    (1824-1896),    XIX.    162. 

88.  Camille  (1848),  VIII.   64.     1.  Prostitution.     2.  Love.     3.  Pathos.     A 

dramatic  story  of  the  love  of  a  courtesan,  a  consumptive,  who  renounces  her 
lover  at  the  plea  of  his  father,  and  dies,  her  end  being  hastened  by  grief. 

89.  The  Clemenceau  Case  (1867),  VIII.  76.     1.  Prostitution.     2.  Tragedy. ; 

3.  Character.  A  dramatic  character  study  of  a  bom  harlot,  whom  her 
husband  kills  to  save  her  from  prostitution. 

FORTUNE    H.    A.    DU    BOISGOBET    (1824-1891),    XIX.    169. 

90  THECRiMEOFTHEOp]fiRA(1879),  VII.  297.  1 .  Crime  and  its  Detection. 
2.  Intrigue.  A  mysterious  murder  is  committed  which  is  never  publicly 
cleared  up,  but  the  reader  is  let  into  its  secret,  which  is  a  maze  of  in- 
trigue, leading  to  the  suicide  of  the  murderer. 

EDMOND  FRANCOIS  VALENTINE  ABOUT  (1828-1866),  XIX.  3.. 

91.  The  Man  with  the  Broken  Ear  (1862),  I.  1.     1.  Medicine.     2.  Com 

edy.  3.  Love.  A  soldier  of  Napoleon  I.,  condemned  to  death  as  a 
spy,  is  desiccated  by  a  German  physiologist,  and  so  held  in  suspended 
animation  for  three  generations,  when  he  is  restored  to  life  in  the  full 
vigor  of  youth.  Grotesque  results  follow,  such  as  his  falling  in  love  with 
a  girl  who  proves  to  be  his  own  grandchild,  and  making  her  lover  furi- 
ously jealous.     Napoleon  III.  appears  in  the  story. 

92.  The  King  of  the  Mountains  (1856),  I.  13.     1.  Satire.     2.  Adventure. 

A  German  botanist  and  two  English  women,  mother  and  daughter, 
are  captured  by  a  Greek  bandit.  The  bandit  banks  his  gains  with  the 
London  firm  in  which  the  ladies  have  an  interest.  Discovering  this, 
the  botanist  contrives  that  the  ransoms  are  paid,  unknown  to  the  ban- 
dit, from  the  bandit 's  own  funds.  But  the  botanist  himself  is  buncoed 
by  the  bank,  and  left  a  prisoner.  After  clever  and  daring  attempts  to 
escape  (whereat  the  bandit  is  grieved  because  of  his  perfidy),  the  botanist 
is  rescued  by  two  resourceful  Americans.  While  prisoners  together  he 
had  made  love  to  the  English  girl  encouraged  by  both  ladies.  On 
rejoining  them  when  free,  however,  he  is  "cut  dead." 

JULES    VERNE    (1828-1906),    XIX.    412. 

93L  Twenty  Thousand  Leagues  Under  the  Sea  (1873),  XVII.  118. 
1.  Invention.  2.  Adventure.  3.  Piracy.  A  deeply  injured  man  be- 
comes a  pirate  upon  the  commerce  of  the  world,  inventing  and  operating 
a  submarine  boat  for  the  purpose. 


ANALYSIS    OF   THE    WORLD'S    STORIES        17 

CHARLES    VICTOR    CHERBULIEZ  (1820-1899),    XIX.    02. 

94.  SamuelBrohlandCompany(1877),  IV.  381.     1.  Imposture.     2.  Char- 

acter. A  low-born  Jew  assumes  the  character  of  a  Himgarian  noble  in 
order  to  win  an  heiress.  He  is  exposed.  Portrayal  of  his  character  is 
the  distinctive  feature  of  the  novel. 

HECTOR    MAXOT    (1830-1907),    XIX.    305. 

95.  Conscience  (1878),  XII.  159.     1.  Meicine.     2.  Crime  and  its  Punish- 

ment. 3.  Character.  4.  Ethics.  5.  Love.  6.  Hypnotism.  A  strug- 
gling physician  loves  a  poor  school-teacher,  and,  unable  to  marry,  makes 
her  his  mistress.  He  murders  a  usurer — who  will  lend  him  money  only 
on  condition  he  will  marry  a  rich,  dissolute  woman  and  make  way  with 
her — and  robs  his  safe.  He  marries  his  mistress.  Her  brother  is  accused 
of  her  husband's  crime,  and  is  transported.  The  doctor  suspects  that 
his  wife  knows  of  his  crime,  and  hypnotizes  her  to  make  certain.  She 
is  ignorant  of  his  guilt,  but  learns  it  from  his  talking  in  his  sleep,  and  leaves 
him.  The  story  closes  with  the  return  of  the  convict,  and  the  doctor 
going  to  face  him,  his  mother,  and  his  sister. 

PHILIPPE    DE    MASSA    (1831-  ),    XIX.    122. 

96.  ZiBELiNE  (1892),  VI.  302.     1.  Love.     2.  Gambling.     A  young  soldier 

gambles  away  his  estate  to  an  adventurer.  Twenty  years  later,  advanced 
in  position  but  not  wealth,  he  meets  a  rich  young  woman,  who  invites 
his  attentions,  and  chooses  him  from  younger  and  wealthier  suitors  as 
her  husband.  She  takes  him  to  his  lost  estates,  which  he  finds  are  now 
his  own  property,  and  he  learns  that  she  is  the  daughter  of  the  man  who 
had  won  them  from  him  in  play. 

EMILE    GABORIAU    (1833-1873),    XIX.    196. 

97.  File  No.  113  (1867),  IX.  57.     1.  Detection  of  Crime.     2.  Impersona- 

tion. The  cashier  is  accused  of  a  bank  robbery.  A  man  is  introduced 
to  him  as  a  friend  of  his  father's.  It  is  really  Lecoq,  the  great  detective. 
Lecoq  unearths  the  real  criminal,  who  is  blackmailing  the  banker's  wife, 
pretending  to  be  her  illegitimate  son,  and  wooing  the  banker's  daughter, 
who  is  beloved  by  the  cashier. 

98.  MoNSiEXJR  Lecoq  (1869),  IX.  64.     1.  Detection  of  Crime.     The  hero  is 

the  detective  of  "File  No.  113"  (97).  He  draws  shrewd  deductions 
from  the  circumstances  attendant  on  a  murder,  and  penetrates  various 
ruses  of  the  prisoner  to  hide  his  identity.  He  proves  to  his  own 
satisfaction  after  the  prisoner  escapes,  that  he  is  a  nobleman. 

ANDRE    THEURIET    (1833-1907),    XIX.    404. 

99.  A   Woodland   Queen   (1890),    XVI.   411.     1.  Love.    2.  Nature.    A 

young  girl,  loving  the  woods  and  fields,  is  beloved  by  two  young  men. 
It  is  revealed  to  her  in  confidence  that  one  is  her  natural  brother.  She 
forces  herself  to  be  cold  to  him,  and  he  enlists  as  a  soldier  and  is  killed. 


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She  mourns  for  him  so  sincerely  that  the  other  lover  beheves  the  dead 
man  had  her  heart.    Then  she  reveals  the  secret,  and  all  is  well. 

LUDOVIC    HALEVY    (1834-1908),    XIX.    241. 

100.  The  Abb^  Constantine  (1882),  IX.  345.     1.  Love.    A  poor  young 

man  loves  an  American  heiress,  who,  seeing  that  he  is  too  proud  to 
propose,  asks  him  to  marry  her. 

101.  Mademoiselle   Duval   (1880),    IX.    356.     1.  Youth.     2.  Character. 

3.  Love.  A  wealthy  young  school-girl's  diary,  in  which  she  naively 
sets  down  her  maiden  triumphs  of  dress,  etc.,  and  her  final  conquest 
of  a  man  of  title. 

(HKRE  MAT  FOLLOW  434  AND  435.) 

EMIL.E    ZOLA    (1840-1903),    XIX.    439. 

102.  Claude's    Confession    (1865),    XVII.    301.     1.  Poverty.    2.  Love. 

3.  Pathos.  A  poor  student  in  Paris  vmtes  his  brothers  in  the  country 
of  two  women,  one  a  harlot,  in  name  and  soul,  and  one  only  in  name, 
who  loved  him.     The  death  of  the  innocent  one  is  pathetically  described. 

103.  THERfeSE  Raquin  (1867),  XVII.  312.     1.  Vice  and  Crime.     2.  Love. 

3.  Tragedy.  The  lawless  loves  of  a  low  Parisian  household,  ending 
with  suicide. 

104.  The  Abb£  Mouret's  Transgression   (1875),  XVII.  321.     1.  Reli- 

gion. 2.  Pathos.  The  love  of  a  priest  for  a  young  girl  ends  in  his 
repentance  and  return  to  the  church,  and  in  her  suicide. 

105.  Drink  (1877),  XVII.  331.     1.  Temperance.     2.  Labor.     3.  Parisian 

Life.  4.  Pathos.  The  tragedy  wrought  by  liquor  in  the  family  of 
a  workingman. 

106.  A  Page  of  Love  (1878),  XVII.  340.     1.  Medicine.     2.  Psychology. 

3.  Love.  4.  Pathos.  A  little  girl,  inheriting  a  tendency  to  insanity, 
has  a  fit  and  the  mother,  a  widow,  calls  in  a  doctor.  Though  married, 
he  falls  in  love  with  the  widow.  Though  she  is  engaged  to  a  good 
man  she  cannot  resist  the  doctor's  passion,  and  enters  into  a  liaison 
with  him.  She  neglects  her  child,  who  dies  in  consequence,  leaving  her 
mother  a  victim  of  remorse. 

107.  Nana  (1881),  XVII.  352.     1.  Vice  and    Crime.     2.  Tragedy.     3.  His- 

tory. The  ruin  wrought  by  a  harlot  of  the  Parisian  stage.  The 
story  ends  with  the  opening  of  the  Franco-Prussian  War. 

108.  Germinal    (1885),    XVII.    364.     1.  Labor.     2.  Tragedy.     A    sequel 

to  "Nana."  Nana's  brother  becomes  a  miner.  A  labor  strike  is 
depicted,  and  the  tragedies  of  mining  are  thrillingly  presented. 

109.  The  Land  (1887),  XVII.  376.     1.  Labor.     2.  French  Peasant  Life. 

3.  Avarice.  4.  Crime.  A  tragedy  resulting  from  the  greed  for  land 
among  some  peasants. 

110.  The  Downfall   (1892),   XVII.   387.     1.  History.     2.  Pathos.    The 

pathetic  story  of  a  French  private  in  the  Franco-Prussian  War. 


ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES        19 

111.  Fruitfulness  (1899),  XVII.  398.     1.  Labor.     2.  Sociology.     A  con- 

trast between  the  happiness  resulting  from  child-bearing  and  industry, 
and  the  miseries  of  race-suicide  and  idleness. 

112.  Labor    (1901),    XVII.    409.     1.  Labor.     2.  Imagination.     A    picture 

of  an  ideal  industrial  condition  brought  about  by  constructive  labor 
reforms,  in  opposition  to  anarchistic  methods. 

(HERE  MAT  FOLLOW  444  AND  445.) 
ALPHONSE   DAUDET    (1840-1897),    XIX.    111. 

113.  Tartarin    of    Tarascon    (1872),    VI.     80.     1.  Humor.     2.  Satire. 

3.  Character.  4.  Hunting.  A  satire  upon  the  exuberant  tempera- 
ment of  the  Southern  Frenchman.  Two  characters  are  shown  con- 
tending in  the  hero,  one  of  the  romantic  Don  Quixote,  the  other  of 
the  sensual  Sancho  Panza.  This  leads  to  many  amusing  situations. 
The  hero  fights  pirates  in  the  Mediterranean  who  prove  to  be  hotel 
porters,  lions  in  Africa,  which  daylight  reveals  to  be  donkeys,  etc. 

114.  Fromont   and   Risler   (1874),   VI.   92.     1.  Character.     2.  Business. 

3.  Family  Relations.  The  wife  of  the  elder  member  of  a  firm  plays 
fast  and  loose  with  his  partner  and  younger  brother,  resulting  in  her 
husband's  financial  ruin  and  suicide,  and  other  tragedies. 

115.  Jack  (1876),  VI.   102.     1.  Family  Relations.     2.  Youth.     3.  Pathos. 

4.  Character.  The  pathetic  story  of  a  son  to  whom,  boy  and  man, 
his  mother,  vain  and  unfaithful,  was  an  evil  genius. 

116.  The   Nabob    (1878),    VI.    124.     1.  Parisian    Society.     2.  Character. 

3.  Politics.  4.  The  Theater.  5.  Tragedy.  A  rich  man  dazzles 
Paris  with  his  munificence,  patronizing  artists,  actresses,  etc.  His 
loyal  secretary  tries  to  guard  him  from  the  intrigues  which  beset  him, 
but  in  vain.  The  Nabob  enters  politics,  but  is  defeated  and  disgraced, 
because  he  will  not  humiliate  his  old  mother  by  revealing  that  her  other 
son  is  a  scoundrel.  His  crucifixion  takes  place  in  a  theater,  where 
he  dies  of  a  broken  heart. 

117.  Kings  in"  Exile  (1879),  VI.  113.     1.  Politics.     2.  Character.     3.  Loy- 

alty. A  royal  family  are  exiled  in  Paris.  The  king  forgets  honor  and 
duty  in  the  pleasures  of  the  city,  and  sells  his  claim  to  the  throne. 
The  Queen  has  one  devoted  subject,  who,  by  accident,  blinds  the 
young  prince,  leading  to  the  revelation  of  the  subject's  love  for  her. 

118.  NUMA     RouMESTAN     (1881),     VI.      149.     1.  Character.     2.  Politics. 

3.  History.  The  hero  is  a  character  study  of  Gambetta.  He  is  the 
political  idol  of  the  South  of  France.  He  cannot  refuse  the  plea  of  a 
friend,  or  the  advances  of  a  woman,  and  through  this  weakness  loses 
the  respect  and  love  of  his  wife. 

119.  Sappho  (1884),  VI.  135.     1.  Character.     2.  Prostitution.     A  Parisian 

courtesan  ruins  a  young  man  from  the  provinces,  and  when  he  sacri- 
fices his  career  for  her,  she  leaves  him  for  a  former  lover,  a  forger. 


20       ANALYSIS   OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES 

120.  The   Evangelist   (1885),   VI.    158.     1.  Religion.     2.  Character.     A 

religious  fanatic  drives  her  husband  to  suicide,  and  ruins  the  Ufe  of 
her  schoolmate. 

121.  The  Immortal  (1888),  VI.  168.     1.  Literary  Forgery.     2.  The  French 

Academy.  3.  Character.  4.  Tragedy.  A  forger  of  MSS.  deceives 
and  ruins  a  French  Academician.  The  Academician's  son  is  a  "strug- 
gle-for-lifeur"  who  schemes  successfully  to  advance  in  life  by  fasci- 
nating rich  and  titled  women,  and  his  wife  is  a  cruel  woman  who  insults 
him  in  his  downfall.  He  kills  himself  because  of  his  disgrace  and 
their  actions. 

122.  Rose    and    Ninette    (1892),    VI.     182.     1.  Divorce.     2.  Character. 

3.  Pathos.  A  man  with  a  bad  wife  agrees  to  a  divorce,  on  condition 
that  the  two  daughters  be  allowed  to  visit  him.  He  loves  a  good 
woman,  similarly  separated  from  a  bad  man,  whom  she  can  not  for- 
get. His  daughters  are  jealous  of  her  and  he  repudiates  them, 
whereupon  he  finds  himself  alone  in  the  world. 

123.  The  Little  Parish  Church  (1895),  VI.  187.     1.  Character.     2.  In- 

fidehty.  3.  Forgiveness.  A  roue  elopes  with  a  married  woman, 
whose  masterful  mother-in-law  has  made  home  intolerable  to  her. 
The  husband  blames  his  mother,  who  repents,  seeks  the  girl,  whose 
lover  has  abandoned  her,. and  brings  her  home  a  penitent.  The  hus- 
band is  away;  returning,  he  finds  the  seducer  murdered  at  his  doors. 
Charged  with  the  crime,  he  refuses  to  exculpate  himself,  believing  his 
wife  has  done  the  deed.  The  murder  is  fixed  on  another  injured  hus- 
band, and  the  prisoner  and  his  wife  meet  in  loving  reconciliation. 

124.  The  Support  OF  the  Family  (1899),  VI.  195.     1.  Character.     2.  Fam- 

ily Life.  3.  Journalism.  4.  Selfishness.  The  elder  son  of  an  or- 
phaned family  regards  himself  and  is  regarded  as  its  mainstay,  but 
this  is  really  the  younger  son.  The  elder  is  congenitally  selfish.  As 
a  journalist  he  makes  copy  out  of  his  family,  to  their  shame.  One 
spark  of  manhood  remains:  when  the  younger  son  is  conscripted 
the  elder  takes  his  place.  Physiological  reasons  are  advanced  to 
explain  the  difference  in  character. 

JULES    ARSENE    ARNAUD    CLARETIE    (1840-  ),    XIX.    95. 

125.  Prlnce  Zilah  (1884),  IV.  424.     1.  Love.     2.  Patriotism.     A  Hunga- 

rian noble  and  gipsy-girl  are  drawm  to  each  other  by  the  common 
passion  of  patriotism.  A  former  lover  of  the  girl  separates  them,  and 
she  pines  away.     However,  they  are  reimited  before  her  death. 

THERESE    BENTZON    [MADAME    BLANC]    (1840-1907),    XIX.    47. 

126.  Jacqueline  (1893),  III.  23.     1.  Character.     2.  Family  Life.     3.  Self- 

Sacrifice.  4.  Love.  The  story  of  a  young  girl  and  her  suitors.  Her 
step-mother  would  force  upon  her  her  own  paramour.  However,  she 
marries  a  fine  young  man,  through  the  self-sacrifice  of  a  friend  who 
is  in  love  with  him  herself,  but  hopelessly. 


ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES        21 


HENRI  GREVnXE  [MADAME  DURAND]  (1842-1902),  XIX.  325. 

127.  DosiA  (1876),  IX.  269.     1.  Love.     A  madcap  girl  and  an  intellectual 

woman  are  loved  respectively  by  a  serious  officer  and  his  dashing 
but  rather  brainless  comrade.  The  men  marry  their  loves  after  suffer- 
ing pangs  of  doubt  and  jealousy. 

FRANCOIS    COPPEE    (1842-1908),    XIX.    103. 

128.  A  Romance  of  Youth  (1897),  VI.  1.     1.  Autobiography.     2.  Youtb. 

3.  Pathos.  4.  Family  Life.  A  semi-autobiographical  romance  of 
youth,  thwarted  ambition,  and  unsatisfied  love.  The  mother  of  a 
family  dies,  the  father  kills  himself  through  loneliness,  the  son's  beloved 
is  seduced  by  a  friend,  whom  he  compels  to  marry  her;  the  friend  dies 
and  the  hero  marries  the  widow,  whose  heart  is  in  the  grave. 

ANATOLE    FRANCE    [JACQUES    ANATOLE    THIBAULT] 
(1844-  ),    XIX.    193. 

129.  The  Red  Lily  (1894),  IX.  30.     1.  Love.     2.  Character.     A  married 

woman  has  a  lover,  to  whom  she  yields,  not  through  love,  but  pity  for 
his  utter  devotion.  She  meets  another  man  whom  she  loves  passion- 
ately. She  discards  the  first  lover  for  him,  but  the  second,  on  learning 
of  the  first  amour,  forsakes  her,  leaving  her  desolate. 

FELIX    GRAS    (1844-1901),    XIX.    232. 

130.  The  Reds  of  the  Midi  (1896),  IX.  221.     1.  History.     2.  Tragedy. 

A  graphic  description  of  the  Marseilles  battalion  that  at  a  critical 
period  in  the  French  Revolution  entered  Paris  singing  Rouget  de  I'lsle's 
hymn,  and  helped  storm  the  Tuileries.  Louis  XVI.,  Marie  Antoinette, 
and  Danton  appear  in  the  story,  and  it  closes  with  a  description  of 
an  execution  by  the  guillotine. 

EDMOND    ADOLPHE    LEPEIXETIER    (1846-  ),•  XIX.    289. 

131.  Madame    Sans-Gene    (1895),    XI.    380.     1.  History.     2.  Character. 

3.  Comedy.  The  story  of  Napoleon  Bonaparte's  laundress,  whose 
fortunes  rose  with  the  "Little  Corporal's,"  until  she  became  the  wife 
of  a  Marshal  and  the  Duchess  of  Dantzic,  although  remaining  coarse 
and  "slangy"  in  her  manners  and  conversation. 

GEORGES  OHNET    (1848-  ),    XIX.    329. 

132.  Serge  Panine  (1881),  XIII.  67.     1.  Family  Life.     2.  Business.     3.  Ras- 

cality.  4.  Tragedy.  A  childless  man  and  wife,  who  have  amassed 
a  fortune  in  the  flour  business,  adopt  a  girl.  Shortly  after  a 
daughter  is  bom  to  them.  In  time  the  girls  are  betrothed,  the  elder 
to  a  banker,  the  younger  to  a  civil  engineer.  To  disturb  this  arrange- 
ment enters  a  Polish  adventurer.  The  lover  of  the  elder  girl,  he  mar- 
ries the  younger,  who  is  the  heiress.  The  mother  arerts  disgrace  to 
the  family  by  killing  him. 


22       ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES 

133.  The  Ironmaster  (1882),  XIII.  81.     1.  Love.     2.  Pathos.     3.  Busi- 

ness. A  rich  ironmaster,  a  self-made  man  of  plebeian  origin,  is  accepted 
as  a  husband  in  a  moment  of  pique,  by  a  high-born  maiden,  whose 
aristocratic  lover  has  jilted  her  for  a  rich  plebeian.  When  the  husband 
discovers  why  his  wife  married  him,  he  is  cut  to  the  heart,  and  lives 
with  her  as  a  husband  only  in  name.  She  learns  to  love  him,  but  fears 
he  hates  her  and  so  hides  her  love.  Her  former  lover  tries  to  establish 
his  old  hold  upon  her,  and  her  husband  has  gone  to  the  field  of 
honor  with  him,  to  protect  her,  when  she  rushes  in,  stops  vrith  her  hand 
the  bullet  intended  for  her  husband,  and  thus  reveals  her  repentance 
and  love. 

GUT    DE    MAUPASSANT    (1850-1893),  XIX.   123. 

134.  Mont  Oriol  (1883),  VI.  307.     1.  Character.     2.  Intrigue.     3.  Busi- 

ness.  The  opening  of  a  watering-place  brings  together  a  rich  Jew  (the 
investor)  and  his  Christian  wife,  and  a  countryman  (the  owner)  and 
his  two  daughters.  The  Jew's  wife  is  pregnant  by  a  lover,  who  is 
repelled  by  her  condition,  and  woos  one  of  the  farmer's  daughters. 
The  birth  of  the  child  gives  the  Jew's  wife  the  object  of  love  which 
her  heart  craved,  and  she  is  content. 

135.  A  Life  (1883),  VI.  316.     1.  Domestic  Infelicity.     2.  Vice.     3.  Mother- 

hood. A  woman  has  an  unfaithful,  vicious  husband,  whom  she  for- 
gives for  the  sake  of  bearing  children,  whom  she  may  love.  He  is 
killed  by  a  husband  he  has  wronged.  His  boy  grows  up  like  him,  but 
the  son  of  a  servant  girl  the  father  had  seduced  becomes  a  stay  to  the 
widow,  and  the  daughter  of  her  wayward  son  a  convict. 

136.  Bel  Ami  (1885),  VI.  326.     1.  Character.     2.  Rascality.     3.  Journal- 

ism. 4.  Politics.  The  story  of  a  heartless  man  of  ambition,  who  vrins 
several  women  as  his  mistresses,  schemes  successfully  in  journalism 
and  politics,  marries  to  advance  his  fortunes,  gets  a  divorce,  and 
marries  the  daughter  of  his  first  mistress,  who  had  loved  him  since 
childhood. 

137.  Pierre    and    Jean    (1888),    VI.    335.     1.  Character.     2.  Domestic 

Infelicity.  3.  Pathos.  An  elder  brother  suspects  his  brother  is  not 
his  father's  son,  and  finally  proves  it.  He  cannot  restrain  himself 
from  torturing  his  mother  and  brother,  and  flees  from  home,  to  her 
sorrow,  to  avoid  it. 

PIERBE   LOTI    [LOUIS    MARIE    JULIEN    VIAUD]    (1850-        ), 
XIX.    297. 

138.  Madame  CHRVSANTHfeME  (1887),  XII.  45.     1.  Japanese  Life.     2.  Au- 

tobiography. An  account  of  a  summer  in  Japan  spent  by  a  young 
French  naval  officer  (the  author),  recounting  his  companionship  with 
a  Japanese  girl. 


ANALYSIS    OF   THE    WORLD'S    STORIES        23 

PAUL.    BOURGET    {18SZ-  ).    XIX.    61. 

139.  CoSMOPOLis    (1892),     III.      161.     1.  Character.     2.  Roman     Society. 

3.  Intrigue.  4.  Tragedy.  "A  romance  of  international  life,"  and 
"a  drama  of  passion,"  the  scene  of  which  is  laid  in  modern  Rome. 

RENE    BAZIN    (1853-  ),    XIX.    38. 

140.  The   Ink-Stain   (1888),    II.   358.      1.   Love.     2.  Family  Life.    The 

course  of  true  love,  troubled  by  family  opposition,  but  finally 
leading  to  peaceful  vi^aters. 

AMELIE    SCHULTZ    (1870-  ),    XIX.    363. 

141.  The  Story  of  Collette  (1887),  XIV.  255.     1.  Comedy.     2.  Love. 

A  young  girl  prays  to  a  saint  for  a  husband.  None  appears.  In  anger 
she  hurls  the  image  out  of  the  window,  where  it  hits  a  passing  traveller 
who  proves  in  time  to  be  the  husband  desired. 


SPAIN. 

142.  The  Cro   (1252-1270),   IV.   413.     1.  History.     2.  Chivalry.     3.  Pa- 

triotism. 4.  Adventure.  The  epic  story,  by  unknown  authors,  of 
the  knightly  Christian  partisan  leader  against  the  Moors,  Ruy  Diaz, 
the  Champion  of  Bivar. 

DIEGO    HURTADO    DE    MENDOZA    (1503-1575),    XIX.    316. 

143.  Lazarillo  de  Tormes  (1553),  XII.  280.     1.  Adventure.  2.  Rascality. 

3.  Satire.  The  escapades  of  a  rascally  adventurer,  in  which  the 
author  exposes  the  abuses  of  the  times. 

MIGUEL  DE  CERVANTES  SAAVEDRA  (1547-1616).  XIX.  85. 

144.  Don   Quixote   (1605),   IV.    320.     1.  Satire.     2.  Humor.     3.  Adven- 

ture. 4.  Insanity.  5.  Character.  A  satire  on  chivalry.  A  de- 
mented gentleman  imagines  himself  a  hero  of  romance,  and  sets  out 
on  a  quest  in  which  his  hallucinations  lead  him  into  all  sorts  of  amusing 
and  absurd  adventures.  His  squire  is  a  man  in  whom  simplicity  and 
shrewdness  combine  to  render  him  as  notable  a  character  as  his  master. 

MATEO    ALEMAN    (1560-1609),    XIX.    11, 

146.  The  Life  and  Adventxtres  of  Guzman  D'Alfarache  (1599),  I. 
177.  1.  Rascality.  2.  Adventure.  The  escapades  of  a  knavish 
adventurer. 

PEDRO    ANTONIO    DE    AX.ARCON    (1833-1891).    XIX.    8. 
146.  Brunhilde     (1891),     I.   121.     1.  Music.     2.  Love.      3.  Melodrama. 
An  orchestra  leader  (violinist),  in  love  with  a  prima  donna,  is  kidnapped 
by  a  rival. 


24       ANALYSIS   OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES 

BENITO    PEREZ    GAXDOS    (1845-  ),    XIX.    196. 

147.  Saragossa    (1874),    IX.     72.     1.  History.     2.  War.     3.  Avarice.     A 

vivid  account  of  the  siege  of  Saragossa  in  Spain  during  the  Napoleonic 
war.  A  miser  traflScs  with  the  enemy.  An  officer  orders  his  son  to 
shoot  him.  The  young  man  refuses,  for  he  loves  the  miser's  daughter, 
who  has  been  the  heroine  of  the  siege.  Moncey  and  Palafox,  the  re- 
spective French  and  Spanish  generals,  appear  in  the  story. 

148.  Marianella    (1878),     IX.     82.     1.  Blindness.     2.  Love.     3.  Pathos. 

A  blind  young  man,  wealthy,  loves  his  guide,  an  ugly,  dwarfish  girl. 
His  sight  is  restored  and  she  shuns  him.  He  falls  in  love  with  a  beau- 
tiful girl.  The  dwarf  attempts  suicide,  and  is  saved  by  the  doctor 
only  to  see  the  repulsion  in  her  beloved's  face  (that  she  had  attempted 
to  avoid)  and  to  die  of  the  hurt. 


ITALY. 

GIOVANNI    BOCCACCIO    (1313-1375).    XIX.    54. 

149.  The  Decameron  (1350),  III.  122.   1.  Pestilence.    2.  Religion.   3.  Ras- 

cality. 4.  Adventure.  5.  Love.  6.  Tragedy.  Four  stories  of 
the  one  hundred  told  by  a  party  of  Florentines  in  a  country  retreat 
during  a  plague.  (1)  The  Three  Rings  is  a  parable  told  by  a  Jew  to 
the  Sultan  Saladin,  to  inculcate  tolerance  in  religion.  (2)  The  Wife's 
Revenge  is  a  tale  of  a  rascal  who  wagers  with  a  comrade  that  the  com- 
rade's wife  is  unfaithful,  and  wins  his  bet  by  trickery,  whereupon  the 
husband  orders  a  servant  to  kill  the  wife.  The  wife  escapes  and, 
disguised  as  a  man,  has  many  strange  adventures.  Finally,  she  se- 
cures the  punishment  of  the  villain  and  is  reunited  to  her  repentant 
husband.  (3)  The  Mistress  Regained  is  a  tale  of  a  lover,  who  is 
separated  from  his  mistress  by  a  rascal  monk,  and  who  returns  in  dis- 
guise, thereby  discovering  and  exposing  the  rascality  and  regaining 
his  mistress.  (4)  The  Lover's  Heart  is  a  tragic  tale  of  a  brutal  father 
who  murders  his  daughter's  paramour,  and  sends  her  his  heart,  where- 
upon she  mingles  its  blood  with  her  tears  and  poison,  and  drinks  the 
fatal  draught. 

150.  La  Fiammetta  (1341),  III.  145.     1.  Character.     2.  Love.     3.  Super- 

stition. The  emotions  of  a  wife,  unfaithful  to  an  unsuspecting  husband, 
and  in  doubt  as  to  her  paramour's  fidelity.  Divination  by  dreams 
plays  a  part  in  the  story. 

ALESSANDRO    MANZONI    (1785-1883),    XIX.    305. 

161.  TheBetrothed(1827),  XII.  170.  1.  History.  2.  Marriage.  3.  Re- 
ligion. Two  betrothed  lovers  are  separated  on  the  eve  of  marriage 
by  a  robber  baron.  The  woman  vows  virginity  to  the  Virgin  if  she 
escapes  dishonor;  she  escapes,  and  later  is  absolved  of  her  vow,  and 
weds  her  lover.    A  plague  at  Milan  in  the  early  17th  century  is  described. 


ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES       25 

TOMMASO    GROSSI    (1791-18A3).    XIX.    237. 

152.  Marco  ViscONTi(  1834),  IX.  287.  1.  History.  2.  Chivalry.  3.  War. 
A  romantic  tale  of  Italian  feuds  in  the  Middle  Ages,  in  which  the  pas- 
sions of  love  and  revenge  are  depicted  as  leading  to  single  combats, 
assassinations,  etc. 

MASSIMO    TAPARELLI    D'AZEGLIO    (1798-1866),    XIX.    23. 

163.  Ettore  Fieramosca;  or,  The  Challenge  of  Barletta  (1833),  II.  12. 

1.  Tragedy.  2.  History.  The  story  of  a  combat  between  thirteen 
French  and  thirteen  Italian  knights,  led  up  to  by  crimes  committed 
against  fair  ladies,  chiefly  instigated  by  the  infamous  Caesar  Borgia. 

FRANCESCO    GUERRAZZI    (1804-1873),    XIX.    237. 

164.  Beatrice  Cenci  (1854),  IX.  298.     1.  History.     2.  Crime.     3.  Trag- 

edy. A  tragic  romance,  based  on  the  crimes  of  Count  Cenci.  He  is 
represented  as  slain  by  a  protector  of  his  own  daughter  from  his  inces- 
tuous designs.  The  torture  of  this  daughter  and  others,  and  their 
fiual  execution  are  described. 

CESARE  CANTU  (1804-1895),  XIX.  82. 
166.  Margherita  Pusterla  (1838),  IV.  278.  1.  History.  2.  Tragedy. 
3.  Crime.  A  story  of  the  days  of  the  feud  between  Guelphs  and 
Ghibellines,  in  which  intrigue  and  lust  and  politics  lead  to  various 
tragedies,  the  chief  being  the  willing  death  of  a  son  at  the  hands  of_ 
his  unwilling  father,  in  order  to  revenge  him  upon  the  father. 

GIOVANNI    RUFFINI    (1807-1881),    XIX.    358. 

166.  Doctor  Antonio  (1855),  XIV.  136.  1.  Medicine.  2.  History. 
3.  Love.  4.  Patriotism.  An  English  girl  in  Italy  falls  sick  and  is 
attended  by  an  Italian  physician.  They  come  to  love  each  other, 
but  her  people  take  her  away  to  England,  where  she  marries.  Left 
a  widow,  she  returns  to  find  her  lover.  He  has  become  involved  in 
the  Sicilian  revolution,  and  is  imprisoned.  The  Englishwoman  plans 
to  rescue  him,  but  he  refuses  to  be  liberated  while  his  comrades  are  in 
prison.  He  is  transferred  elsewhere,  and  never  heard  of  again,  and 
the  lady  dies  of  grief. 

GIULIO    CARCANO    (1812-1884),    XIX.    82. 

157.  Damiano    (1840),    IV.    291.     1.  Poverty.     2.  Family   Love.     A   poor 

family  struggles  against  adversity  and  intrigue,  and  finally  attains  suc- 
cess and  a  measure  of  happiness  for  its  members. 

ANTON    GIULIO    BARRILI    (1836-  )    XIX.    37. 

158.  The  Eleventh  Commandment    (1870),  II.  334.      1.   Farce-comedy. 

2.  Italian  Society.  3.  Marriage.  An  heiress,  to  escape  an  unwel- 
come marriage,  assumes  man's  disguise,  and  takes  refuge  in  a  lay 
monastery.  Her  sex  is  suspected,  and  all  the  brothers  fall  in  love  with 
her.  She  settles  the  turmoil  by  marrying  the  head  of  the  monasterjr^ 
which  is  thereby  dissolved. 

(HERE  MAT  FOLLOW  444  AND  445.) 


26       ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES 

GIOVANNI    VKRGA    (1840-  ).    XIX.    412. 

169.  The  Malavoglia  (1881),  XVII.  107.  1.  Peasant  Life  and  Character. 
2.  Poverty.  3.  Pathos.  The  bitter  struggle  of  a  poor  Italian  family 
with  misfortune,  leading  to  tragedies  of  life  and  love. 

ANTONIO    FOGAZZARO   (1842-  ).    XIX.    189. 

160.  The    Saint    (1906),    VIII.    400.     1.  ReUgion.     2.  Character.     A   di- 

vorced woman,  an  agnostic,  is  deserted  by  her  lover,  who  has  become 
suddenly  converted  by  the  recovery  to  reason  at  death  of  his  insane 
wife.  He  becomes  a  priest  and  is  worshipped  as  a  saint  by  the  people. 
He  incurs  the  enmity  of  priests  and  politicians  by  denouncing  abuses 
of  their  orders,  and  is  worn  to  death  in  the  resulting  contests.  He 
converts  his  former  mistress  to  Christianity  on  his  death-bed. 

EDMONDO    DE    AMICIS    (1846-1908),    XIX.    114. 

161.  The  Romance  of  a  Schoolmaster  (1876),  VI.  221.     1.  Education. 

2.  Italian  Life.  3.  Politics.  4.  Character.  The  story  of  an  Italian 
public  schoolmaster,  and  the  petty  politics  which  caused  his  removal 
from  place  to  place.     Rural  types  of  character  are  carefully  portrayed. 

MATILDE    SERAO    (1856-  ),    XIX.    369. 

162.  The  Conquest  OF  Rome  (1889),  XV.  205.     1.  Politics.    2.  Character. 

A  country  member  of  the  Italian  Parliament  is  ruined  politically  by 
the  young  wife  of  an  old  man,  who  intrigues  with  him  without  really 
loving  him. 

(HERE  MAT  FOLLOW  509.) 

GABRIELE    D'ANNUNZIO    (1864-  ),    XIX.    IS. 

163.  The    Intruder    (1892),    I.    248.     1.  Ethics.     2.  Crime.     3.  Pathos. 

4.  Character.  A  woman,  living  with  her  dissipated  husband,  but 
estranged  from  him,  bears  an  illegitimate  child,  and  confesses  to  him 
her  infideUty.  The  child  is  unwelcome  to  the  husband,  and  he  exposes 
it  to  the  cold  a  moment,  then  repents  and  fosters  it  with  eager  care. 
But  it  dies,  leaving  the  man  in  conscience-stricken  agony. 

164.  The  Triumph  of  Death  (1894),  I.  258.     1.  Character.     2.  Tragedy. 

3.  Love.  The  tragedy  of  two  soul-sick  and  world-weary  lovers,  to 
whom  love  is  both  an  intoxication  and  an  obsession,  preventing  all 
natural  joys  and  social  duties.  To  solve  the  problem  they  kill  them- 
selves together.  The  story  presents  pictures  of  death  in  all  its  phases, 
forming  an  artistic  monograph,  as  it  were,  of  the  theme. 

ENRICO    ANNIBALE    BUTTI    (1868-  ),    XIX.    74. 

166.  Enchantment  (1899),  IV.  221.  1.  Character.  2.  Love.  3.  Poli- 
tics. A  young  man  who  has  devoted  himself  to  the  study  of  economics 
struggles  against  the  fascination  of  sex  in  the  person  of  a  beautiful 
young  woman  of  inferior  mental  powers  to  his  own,  but  in  the  end  suc- 
cumbs to  it. 


ANALYSIS    OF   THE    WORLD'S    STORIES        27 

GERMANY. 

166.  Reynard  the  Fox  (1498),  XIV.  26.     1.  Youth.     2.  Fable.     3.  Ani- 

mals. 4.  Symbolism.  5.  Satire.  An  animal  legend  in  which  human 
attributes  are  ascribed  to  beasts.  The  Fox  symbolizes  Earl  Reynard, 
a  crafty  noble  of  the  tenth  century. 

JOHANN  WOLf  GANG  TON  GOETHE  (1749-1832).  XIX.  210. 

167.  The  Sorrows  of  Werther  (1774),  IX.  141.     1.  Suicide.     2.  Love. 

3.  Character.  A  young  man  loves  the  wife  of  a  friend,  and,  after 
declaring  his  passion,  kills  himself,  at  the  news  of  which  expected 
event  the  woman  is  prostrated  near  to  death.  The  special  feature 
of  the  novel  is  its  detailed  presentation  of  the  anguish  of  hopeless  love. 

168.  WiLHELM  Meister's  APPRENTICESHIP  (1795),  IX.  149.      1.  Character. 

2.  Adventure.  3.  The  Theatre.  4.  Autobiography.  The  story  of 
a  young  man's  career,  chiefly  as  a  member  of  a  travelling  theatrical 
troupe.  It  is  autobiographical  not  in  events,  but  in  the  psychological 
development  of  the  hero.  In  particular  many  phases  of  female  char- 
acter are  presented. 

169.  Elective    Affinities    (1809),    IX.    160.      1.  Ethics.     2.   Character. 

3.  Love.  4.  Marriage.  A  husband  and  wife  Hve  happily  together  with 
a  bachelor  and  maiden.  The  husband  comes  to  love  the  maiden,  the 
wife  the  bachelor.  A  child  is  born  to  the  married  pair  which  resembles 
both  the  maiden  and  bachelor.  All  but  the  maiden  agree  to  a  divorce 
and  a  remating  according  to  their  afl&nities.  The  child  is  drowned 
while  in  charge  of  the  maiden,  and  she  accepts  it  as  a  divine  warning. 
She  dies,  and  the  husband  dits  also,  as  if  in  psychological  sympathy. 

JEAN    PAUL    [RICHTER]   (1763-1826),    XIX.   361. 

170.  Titan     (1800-3),     XIV.     65.     1.  Character.     2.  Ethics.     3.  Magic. 

4.  Love.  5.  Friendship.  A  father  enjoins  his  son  to  marr>-  his  ward. 
The  son  loves  another,  the  sister  of  a  bosom  friend,  and  finds  that  the 
friend  loves  the  ward.  But  all  things  conspire  to  force  him  to  accept 
the  father's  choice,  even  magic  being  brought  into  play  to  this  end. 
His  own  beloved  resigns  him,  and  dies  of  grief,  and  at  last  he  submits 
to  the  inevitable,  and  finds  that  the  chosen  one  is  really  his  mystical 
mate. 

BARON    DE   LA    MOTTE   FOUQUE    (1777-1843),    XIX.    192. 

171.  Undine  (1811),  IX.  1      1.   'imagination.    2.  Magic.     3.  Love.     4.  Pa- 

thos. A  fairy  tale  of  a  water-sprite  that  gained  a  soul  upon  marriage 
with  a  man — a  knight.  She  still  possesses  uncanny  power  over  the 
water-sprites,  and  her  husband,  in  awe  of  her,  turns  for  human  com- 
p)anionship  to  another  woman.  The  water-sprites,  seeing  Undine 
mistreated,  take  her  to  themselves.  Her  husband  marries  the  other 
woman,  and  by  fairy  law  Undine  is  compelled  to  kill  him. 


38       ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S    STORIES 

172.  SiNTRAM    AND    His    COMPANIONS   (1811),    IX.    11.     1.  Imagination 

2.  Magic.  3.  Symbolism.  4.  Religion.  5.  Ethics.  6.  Paganism. 
A  young  North  German  knight  in  the  Dark  Ages  of  the  struggle  be- 
tween paganism  and  Christianity,  contends  with  the  Devil,  personi- 
f  j-ing  human  selfishness,  and  with  Death,  by  his  victory  over  the  former 
disarming  the  latter. 

ADALBERT    VON    CHAMISSO    (1781-1838),    XIX.    88. 

173.  Peter  Schlemihl:  The  Man  Without  a  Shadow  (1814),  IV.  346. 

1.  Imagination.  2.  Magic.  3.  Ethics.  4.  Humor.  A  grotesque 
tale  of  a  man  who  sold  his  shadow  to  the  devil,  and  of  the  troubles  this 
occasioned.  He  refuses,  however,  to  purchase  back  the  shadow  with 
his  soul,  and  devotes  himself  to  philanthropy,  reaping  in  the  end  his 
reward. 

BARON    VON    EICHENDORFF    (1788-1867),    XIX.    169. 

174.  The     Happy-Go-Lucky     (1824),     VIII.    173.     1.  Poetry.     2.  Love. 

3.  Art.  4.  Adventure.  The  idyl  of  an  idler  who  falls  in  love  with 
a  lady  who  seems  to  be  a  countess  and  too  high  for  him.  After  many 
adventures  he  is  brought  by  two  artists,  the  famous  Leonardo  and 
Reni,  to  a  castle,  where  she  is  given  to  him  as  a  bride.  To  his  joy  he 
learns  she  is  as  poor  as  himself. 

WILHEL.M    HAUFF    (1802-1827),    XIX.    249. 

175.  The    Iron    Heart     (1825),    X.    108.      1.  Imagination.      2.   Magic. 

3.  Forest  Life.  4.  Symbolism.  5.  Ethics.  A  fairy  story  of  the 
Black  Forest  in  which  the  supernatural  characters  are  elves,  giants, 
sorcerers,  etc.,  and  the  human  ones  are  lumbermen,  charcoal-burners, 
glassmakers,  etc.  The  purpose  of  the  allegory  is  to  teach  humanity 
patience,  thrift,  and  other  good  qualities. 

BARONESS    VON    TAUTPHffiUS    (1807-1893),    XIX.    399. 

176.  The  Initials   (1850),   XVI    261.     1.  German   Life  and   Character. 

2.  Love.  A  young  Englishman  is  admitted  by  mistake  into  an  ex- 
clusive German  circle,  where  he  makes  himself  most  welcome.  He  is 
instrumental  m  saving  a  young  woman  by  exposing  a  rascal  by  whom 
she  is  attracted.  At  first  angry  wdth  him,  she  comes  to  be  grateful 
to  him  and  finally  to  love  him. 

FRITZ    REUTER    (1810-1874),    XIX.    350. 

177.  In  THE  Year '13     (1860),  XIV.     13.    1.  History.     2.  German  Peasant 

Life.  A  story  of  the  troubles  occasioned  among  the  peasants  by 
Napoleon's  campaign  through  Germany. 

FANNY    LEWALD  (1811-1889).    XIX.    392. 

178.  HuLDA    (1875),    XII.    1.     1.  Psychic   Phenomena.     2.  The   Theatre. 

3.  Love.    A  pastor's  daughter  is  loved  by  a  baron.     But  she  has  a 


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presentiment  that  something  is  wrong  at  home,  and  returning  thither, 
finds  her  mother  dead.  Her  father  is  worked  upon  by  the  baron's 
sister  to  persuade  her  to  give  the  baron  up.  She  does  so.  On  her 
father'  death  she  becomes  an  actress,  and  later  is  reconciled  to  the 
baron,  and  marries  him. 

BERTHOLD    AUERBAOH    (1812-1882).    XIX.    19. 

179.  On  the  Heights  (1865),  I.   368.     1.  Royalty.     2.  Loyalty.     3.  In- 

trigue. A  peasant  woman,  wet-nurse  of  a  prince,  sees  the  corruption 
of  the  royal  court,  and  by  her  loyalty  causes  the  King's  mistress  to 
repent  her  treason  to  the  Queen,  and  brings  about  the  reconciliation 
of  the  two  ladies  and  the  King  and  Queen  at  the  mistress's  death-bed. 

LUISE    MUEEILBACH    [KLARA    MUNDT]    (1814-1873),    XIX.    326. 

180.  Henry  the  Eighth  and  His  Court  (1851),  XII.  403.     1.  History. 

2.  Religion.  The  story  of  the  English  royal  Bluebeard  and  his  last 
wife,  Catherine  Parr.  The  great  lords  and  ladies  of  the  court  appear 
in  the  story,  and  the  Reformation  of  the  Church  in  England  is  touched 
upon. 

181.  Berlin  and  Sans  Souci  (1866),  XII.  416.     1.  History.     A  romance 

centering  about  Frederick  the  Great  in  his  pleasure  palace  at  Potsdam. 
Other  royal  personages  are  introduced,  great  nobles  and  generals,  a 
favorite  dancer  and  a  noted  adventurer.  The  Seven  Years'  War  with 
Maria  Theresa  of  Austria  is  touched  upon,  and  Frederick's  friendship 
with  Voltaire. 

182.  Marie  Antoinette  and   Her    Son   (1867),   XII.    429.     1.  History. 

2.  Tragedy.  A  dramatic  presentation  of  the  execution  of  Lotus  XVI. 
and  his  Queen,  and  a  romantic,  non-historic  tale  of  the  escape  of  the 
young  Dauphin. 

FRIEDRICH  WILHELM  VON  HACKLANDER  (1816-1877).  XIX.  239. 

183.  Forbidden    Fruit    (1850),    IX.    316.     1.  Love.     2.  Art.     A    young 

soldier  falls  in  love  with  the  model  of  his  brother-in-law,  an  artist. 
His  jealous  sister  leads  him  to  suppose  that  there  is  an  amour  between 
artist  and  model,  and  this  leads  to  misunderstandings,  which  are 
finally  resolved  by  the  discovery  that  the  bond  between  the  susoected 
pair  is  a  secret — the  restoration  of  the  model  to  her  rightful  place  in 
society. 

CHRISTOPH    SCHiJCKlNG    (1814-1883).  XIX.    362. 

184.  Paul  Bronkhorst  (1868),  XIV.  244.     1.  Law.     2.  German  Life  and 

Character.  3.  Marriage.  A  picture  of  Wcstphalian  life  and  char- 
acter of  a  century  ago.  The  plot  turns  on  the  impairment  of  eligi- 
bility to  clerical  oflSce  by  a  misalliance. 


30       ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES 

GUSTAV    FRETTAG    (1816-1895),    XIX.    195. 

185.  Debit  and  Credit  (1855),  IX.  48.      1.  Fidelity  in  Love  and  Business. 

The  upward  career  in  business  of  an  honorable  young  man,  who 
sacrifices  self  interest  to  restore  the  fortunes  of  a  noble  family,  and  is 
beloved  by  the  daughter  of  the  house;  however,  he  remains  true  to  a 
sweetheart  of  his  own  mercantile  class. 

EMILE    EKCKMANN    (1822-1899);   LOTJIS    G.    C.    A.    CHAT- 
RIAN    (1826-1890);    XIX.    172. 

186.  The  Conscript  (1865),  VIII.  258.     1.  History.     2.  Horrors  of  War. 

A  conscript's  story  of  the  horrors  of  the  last  campaign  of  Napoleon  I. 
before  his  exile  to  Elba.  Ney,  Blucher,  Bernadotte,  Moreau,  and 
Metternich  also  appear  in  the  story.  The  battles  of  Liitzen,  Leipzig, 
and  the  Elster  are  described. 


GOLO    KAIMUND    (BERTHA    FREDERICH]    (1825-1882),  XIX.   349. 

187.  A  Newt  Race  (1880),  XIII.  333.     1.  Love.     2.  Restitution.     A  young 

man  is  despoiled  of  his  estate  by  a  rich  old  man,  and  is  embittered 
against  him  and  his  granddaughter.  But  she  discovers  the  virong,  and, 
hearing  the  young  man  has  become  blind,  attends  to  him,  under  an 
assumed  name.  When  she  comes  into  her  property,  she  offers  the 
betrothed  of  the  young  man  an  estate,  in  recompense  of  the  wrong  done 
him.  The  young  man  forbids  his  betrothed  to  accept  a  gift  from  one 
of  the  hated  race.  She  refuses  to  obey  him,  and  the  engagement  is 
broken.  He  recovers  his  sight  and  discovers  that  the  giver  is  his 
companion,  whereupon  he  falls  in  love  with  her  and  they  marry. 

E.    MARLITT    [EUGENIE    JOHN]    (1826-1887),    XIX.    312. 

188.  The  Old  Mam'selle's  Secret  (1868),  XII.  180.     1.  Crime.     2.  Hero- 

ism. 3.  Music.  A  rich  old  woman,  a  recluse,  forms  a  secret  friend- 
ship with  a  dependent  girl.  The  recluse  dies,  and  a  fanatic  woman 
destroys  her  chiefest  treasures,  priceless  autograph  music  scores.  The 
young  girl  knows  of  the  vandalism,  but  forbears  to  reveal  it  and  another 
secret,  viz.,  that  the  vandal's  son  is  innocently  living  on  stolen  money. 
The  woman  boldly  confesses  and  justifies  her  crime,  the  son  bravely 
repudiates  the  fortune,  and  marries  the  girl. 

189.  A  Little  Moorland  Princess  (1875),    XII.    192.     1.  Love.     2.  Am- 

bition. 3.  Numismatics.  A  girl  of  Jewish  descent,  brought  up  among 
the  moors  by  her  father,  a  collector  of  coins,  is  introduced  into  soci- 
ety where  pride  of  birth  is  a  ruling  passion.  She  takes  a  dislike  to 
a  merchant  who  declares  that  coins  found  by  her  father  in  a  mound 
are  counterfeit.  She  cruelly  reminds  him  of  a  duel  he  had  fought  in 
his  youth  in  which  he  killed  his  opponent.  Later  she  finds  that  his 
judgment  on  the  coins  is  correct,  and  that  his  duel  was  justified,  and 
marries  him. 


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FRIEDRICH    VON    SPIELHAGEN    (1820-  ),    XIX.    382. 

190.  Hammer  and  An\'IL  (1869),  XV.  376.     1.  Smuggling.     2.  Imprison- 

ment. 3.  Manufacturing.  4.  Social  Reform.  \  young  man  is 
involved  with  smugglers,  and  is  imprisoned.  He  foils  a  plot  to  murder 
the  wardens,  and  is  pardoned.  He  enters  a  factory,  and  by  his  ability 
becomes  in  time  a  partner  in  the  business.  He  inaugurates  reforms, 
such  as  profit-sharing  and  co-partnersliip  of  workingmen. 

PAUL    HETSE    (1830-  ),    XIX.    256. 

191.  In  Paradise  (1875),  X.  240.     1.  Artist  Life.     2.  Love.     3.  Philosophy. 

A  tale  of  artist  life  in  Munich,  in  which  several  love  affairs  are  compli- 
cated by  misunderstandings  about  models,  former  marriage,  etc., 
and  finally  resolved  by  an  explanation  of  these  complications.  Epi- 
cureanism is  presented  as  the  philosophy  of  life. 

LUDWIG    HARDER    (1835-1880). 

192.  A   Family   Feud   (1877),   IX.   390.     1.  Enmity.     2.  Love.     A   man, 

who  had  adopted  a  boy,  marries  afterward,  and  has  a  daughter,  who 
becomes  his  heiress.  His  sister  tries  to  create  discord  between  the 
children.  The  httle  girl  is  kidnapped,  and  suspicion  falls  on  the 
youth.  The  outrage  is  traced  to  the  aunt,  and  the  young  people  are 
reconciled  and  marry  each  other. 

GEORGE    EBERS    (1837-1898),    XIX.    164. 
19^.  Uarda    (1877),    VIII.     117.     1.  History.     2.  Archaeology.     3.  Myth- 
ology.    4.  Witchcraft.      A  romance  of  ancient  Egypt  (under  Rame- 
ses  II.).       The  customs,  mythology,  superstitions,  etc.,  of  the  time 
are  set  forth,  and  war  with  the  Hittites  is  described. 

194.  Homo  Sum  (1878),  VIII.  108.     1.  ReHgion.     2.  Character.     3.  Love. 

4.  Tragedy.  A  man  of  the  world,  a  lover,  an  athlete,  etc.,  becoming 
converted  to  Christianity  from  paganism,  takes  the  vows  of  an  anchorite. 
His  struggles  to  subdue  natural  human  desires  form  the  tragedy  of  the 
story. 

E.    JUNCKER    [ELISABETTA  SCHMIEDEN]  (1841-1896),   XIX.    280, 

195.  Margarethe    (1870),   XL     183.      1.  Love.      2.  Marriage.     3.  Medi- 

cine. 4.  Heroism.  A  story  of  courtship  and  wedded  life.  A  hus- 
band, alienated  from  his  wife,  saves  her  life  by  the  transfusion  of 
his  blood,  and,  later,  she  is  reconciled  to  him  by  his  heroism  in  rescuing 
life  in  an  inundation. 

EVA    HARTNER    [EMMA    VON    TWARDOWSKA]    (1850-  ),    XIX.    249. 

196.  Severa  (1880),  X.  99.     1.  Youth.     2.  Love.     An  orphan  giri  discovers 

that  her  guardian  had  been  rejected  by  her  mother  for  a  vagabond 
actor,  and,  being  in  love  with  the  guardian,  she  tries  to  run  away  from 
him.     He,  however,  stays  her  by  declaring  his  love  for  her. 


32       ANALYSIS   OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES 

PORTUGAL. 

LUIZ    DE   CAMOENS    (1634-1680),    XIX.    79. 
197.  The  Lusiad  (1572),  IV.  273.     1.  History.     2.  Mythology.     3.  Naval 
Adventure.     An  epic  in  the  classic  manner  celebrating  the  exploits  of 
Vasco  da  Gama. 


GREAT  BRITAIN. 

APHRA    BEHN    (ENGLAND.    1640-1689),    XIX.    46. 

198.  Oeoonoko:    or,   The  Royal  Slave  (1658),  II.  418.      1.  Humanita- 

rianism.  2.  Heroism.  3.  Love.  A  romance  of  two  enslaved  negro 
lovers,  a  prince  and  princess,  in  which  the  cruelty  of  their  masters  is 
depicted  in  black  contrast  to  their  own  bravery  and  constancy. 

DANIEL.    DEFOE    (ENGLAND,    1661-1731),    XIX.    116. 

199.  Robinson    Crusoe    (1719),    VI.    245.     1.  Adventure.     2.  Invention. 

3.  Loyalty.  4.  Cannibalism.  5.  Mutiny.  A  sailor  is  cast  on  a 
desolate  island,  where  he  makes  life  comfortable  by  many  devices. 
He  saves  an  Indian  from  being  eaten  by  cannibals,  and  the  man  becomes 
his  faithful  servant.  They  escape  from  the  island  by  overpowering 
mutineers  who  have  landed  on  the  island,  and  rescuing  their  captain 
whom  they  were  about  to  kill. 

JONATHAN    SWIFT    (IRELAND,    1667-1746),    XIX.    397. 

200.  Gulliver'sTravels(1726-1727),  XVI.  224.     1.  Satire.     2.  Imagina- 

tion. 3.  Adventure.  4.  Philosophy.  5.  Animals.  Imaginary  voy- 
ages to  marvellous  countries,  of  mites,  of  giants,  of  visionary  philosophers, 
and  of  rational  horses,  in  all  of  which  the  author  takes  occasion  to 
satirize  the  human  race  as  a  whole :  in  its  chief  vocations — the  govern- 
ment, law,  medicine,  science,  invention,  philosophy;  in  countries  and 
cities,  such  as  France  and  England,  Paris  and  London;  and  in  indi- 
viduals, Charles  II.,  James  II.,  William  III.,  and  Bolingbroke  being 
obscurely  referred  to. 

SAMUEL    RICHARDSON    (ENGLAND,    1689-1761),    XIX.    360. 

201.  Pamela  (1740),  XIV.  32.     1.  Ethics.     A  servant  girl  resists  the  seduc- 

tions of  her  infatuated  master,  until  he  proposes  honorable  marriage, 
which  she  accepts. 

202.  Clarissa    Harlowe    (1747-8),    XIV.    43.        1.  Ethics.     2.  Pathos. 

A  young  girl  is  pursued  by  a  Ubertine,  who  ruins  her  against  her  will. 
She  dies,  and  he  repents  and  is  killed  by  her  cousin  in  a  duel. 

203.  Sir  Charles  Grandison  (1753),  XIV.  54.     1.  Ethics.     2.  Religion. 

An  heiress,  abducted  by  a  villain,  is  rescued  by  the  hero.  They  fall 
in  love.    But  he  is  in  honor  bound  to  an  Italian  girl,  a  very  devout 


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Catholic,  who  has  been  trying  to  convert  him  to  her  faith.  Finding 
her  efforts  vain,  she  gives  him  up,  and,  thus  released,  he  marries  the 
English  girl. 

HENRT    FIELDING    (ENGLAND,    1707-1764),    XIX.  177. 

204.  The  Adventures  of  Joseph  Andrews  (1742),  VIII.  319.     1.  Satire. 

2.  Adventure.  3.  Character.  4.  Love.  A  satire  on  Richardson's 
"Pamela"  (201)  who  is  represented  as  the  hero's  sister.  Joseph,  under 
temptation,  proves  to  be  a  marvel  of  chastity.  He  and  a  penniless 
parson,  whose  portrait  is  the  distinctive  feature  of  the  book,  have  in- 
teresting adventures  together  on  the  road.  Joseph  falls  in  love  with  a 
poor  girl;  it  appears  that  she  is  his  sister,  then,  later,  not  so.  It 
transpires  that  Joseph  is  well-born ;  the  two  marry,  and  their  troubles 
are  at  an  end. 

205.  Jonathan  Wild  (1743),  VIII.  328.     1.  Satire.     2.  Crime.     A  bur- 

lesque of  the  heroic  apotheosis  of  criminals.  The  career  of  a  low, 
mean  thief  is  depicted  as  worthy  of  admiration.  He  is  represented  as 
picking  the  pocket  of  the  parson  at  his  hanging — and  getting  a  cork- 
screw. 

206.  Tom  Jones  (1749),  VIII.  339.     1.  Adventure.     2.  Humor.     3.  Char- 

acter. A  country  gentleman  adopts  a  foundling.  He  incurs  the  jeal- 
ous hatred  of  the  heir,  a  lad  of  his  own  age.  They  both  covet  the 
same  young  lady.  After  much  intrigue  and  misunderstanding,  it 
developing  that  the  hero  is  the  nephew  of  the  man  who  adopted  him, 
Tom  wins  the  girl. 

207.  Amelia  (1752),  VIII.  356.      1.  Law.     2.  Imprisonment.     3.  Intrigue. 

4.  Marriage.  A  soldier  is  witness  of  an  assault,  and,  being  too  poor  to 
bribe  the  constables,  is  thrown  into  prison.  Here  he  becomes  intimate 
with  a  dissolute  woman.  Through  her  he  is  released.  He  rejoins 
his  wife  and  shuns  his  prison  mistress.  She  is  jealous  and  involves 
him  in  a  duel  and  other  complications,  which  are  finally  resolved  to 
his  credit  and  benefit. 

SAMUEL    JOHNSON    (ENGLAND,    1709-1784),    XIX.    276. 

208.  Rasselas    (1759),  XI.   139.     1.  Philosophy.     2.  Ethics.     3.  Imagina- 

tion. A  romance  of  an  Abyssinian  prince  who  seeks  the  secret  of 
happiness,  and  finds  it  in  "neither  youth  nor  age,  solitude  nor  society, 
affluence  nor  poverty,  high  station  nor  humble  birth,  learning  nor 
ignorance,  marriage  nor  celibacy." 

LAURENCE    STERNE    (ENGLAND,    1713-1768),    XIX.    387. 

209.  Tristram  Shandy  (1759-1767),  XV.  462.     1.  Humor.     2.  Medicine. 

3.  Satire.  4.  Education.  5.  Character.  6.  Autobiography.  The 
hero  has  a  succession  of  misfortunes,  happening  (1)  in  his  geniture 
(2)  to  his  nose,  (3)  in  his  christening,  and  (4)  in  his  education,  the  author 
taking  opportunity  thereby  to  poke  good-natured  fun  at  fathers  and 


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mothers,  doctors,  physiognomists,  teachers,  etc.  The  chief  feature  of 
the  book  is  its  delineation  of  types  of  character,  notably  a  preacher 
(whose  original  was  the  author  himself)  and  a  retired  veteran. 

210.  A   Sentimental  Journey  (1768),  XV.  475.     1.  Travel.     2.  Humor. 

3.  Sentiment.  4.  Adventure.  Adventures  of  a  sentimental  philoso- 
pher, rather  amorously  inclined,  on  a  journey  through  France  and 
Italy,  with  his  quaint  reflections  upon  subjects  suggested  thereby,  love, 
liberty,  religion,  etc. 

HORACE    WAL.POLE    (ENGLAND,    1717-1797),    XIX.    417. 

211.  The      Castle     of     Otranto  (1765),  XVII.    148.     1.  Melodrama. 

2.  Magic.  3.  Ethics.  A  romance  of  a  mediasval  castle,  a  seat  of 
magical  horrors,  in  which  are  involved  villains  and  their  intended 
victims.,  lovers,  etc.      In  the  end,  crime  is  punished  and  virtue  rewarded. 

TOBIAS    GEORGE    jSMOIXETT  (SCOTLAND  1721-1771),  XIX.    379, 

212.  Roderick    Random    (1748),    XV.    310.     1.  Autobiography.     2.  Sea 

Life.  3.  Adventure.  4.  Character.  5.  Satire.  The  career  of  an 
apprentice  who  goes  out  into  the  world  to  seek  his  fortune.  He  meets 
with  many  adventures,  becoming  in  time  a  surgeon's  assistant  on  a 
man-of-war.  Here  the  story  becomes  autobiographical.  The  author's 
experiences  as  a  surgeon  in  the  attack  on  Carthagena  is  described, 
with  satirical  comments  on  the  mismanagement  of  the  expedition. 
Later,  the  hero  enters  the  French  army  and  fights  at  Dettingen.  He 
returns  to  England,  marries  his  sweetheart,  finds  his  father  whom  he 
had  supposed  dead,  and  ends  his  life  in  prosperity.  Various  types  of 
mariners  are  delineated  in  semi-caricature. 

213.  Peregrine    Pickle    (1751),    XV.     323.     1.  Adventure.     2.  Politics. 

3.  Authorship.  4.  Character.  The  career  of  a  young  man  of  a  sa- 
tirical turn  of  mind  which  involves  him  in  trouble  with  his  sweetheart, 
and  both  injures  and  aids  him  in  his  political  fortimes.  Queer  char- 
acters, an  old  sea-dog  in  particular,  are  delineated. 

214.  Ferdinand,  Count  Fathom  (1753),  XV.  334.     1.  Rascality.     2.  Ad- 

venture. The  adventurous  career  of  a  sharper,  ending  in  jail,  whence 
he  is  generously  liberated  by  a  friend  whom  he  had  grievously  misused. 

216.  Launcelot  Greaves  (1761),  XV.  345.  1.  Adventure.  2.  Satire. 
3.  Insanity.  An  imitation  of  Don  Quixote  (144).  The  hero  becomes 
insane  on  the  subject  of  knight-errantry,  and,  clothed  in  armor,  rides 
forth  through  the  country  seeking  romantic  adventures.  In  time  he 
lands  in  an  insane  asylum,  wherein  he  finds  that  his  lady  love  is  also 
confined.  Both  are  rescued,  and,  cured  of  his  delusion,  he  settles 
down  with  her  to  a  happy  married  life. 

216.  Humphry  Clinker  (1771),  XV.  356.  1.  Humor.  2.  Travel. 
3.  Character.  The  story  of  a  stupid,  faithful  servant  of  a  squire 
on  a  tour  with  his  family  through  various  cities  and  resorts  of  England. 


ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES       35 

OLIVER    GOLDSMITH    (ENGLAND,    1728-1774).    XIX.    226. 

217.  The  Vicar  of  Wakefield  (1766),  IX.  182.     1.  Family  Life.     2.  In- 

trigue. 3.  Rascality.  4.  Love.  5.  Character.  The  story  of  an 
English  vicar  and  his  family,  especially  a  daughter  who  is  abducted 
by  a  villain,  who  also  persecutes  the  good  vicar.  She  is  rescued  by  a 
good  man  who  truly  loves  her,  and  all  ends  happily. 

JOHN    MOORE      (SCOTLAND,    1729-1802),    XIX.    321. 

218.  Zeluco     (1789),     XII.     357.      1.  Crime.     2.  Character.     3.  Insanity. 

The  adventures  of  a  brilliant  but  criminal  and  debased  man.  In  a 
jealous  frenzy  he  murders  his  child,  and  drives  his  wife  insane  tem- 
porarily. She  recovers  her  mind  at  sight  of  a  picture  in  which  is  shown 
a  soldier  murdering  a  child.  The  wife's  defender  kills  Zeluco  in  a 
duel,  and  marries  her. 

HENRY    MACKENZIE    (SCOTLAND,    1746-1831),    XIX.    303. 

219.  The  Man  OF  Feeling  (1771),  XII.  117.     1.  Sentiment.     2.  Character. 

3.  Adventure.  4.  Love.  5.  Pathos.  A  sentimental  young  man 
is  made  the  dupe  of  clever  rogues  and  politicians,  and,  recognizing 
that  he  is  unfit  to  cope  with  the  world,  and  win  a  livehhood  for  himself 
and  the  woman  with  whom  he  is  in  love,  dies  of  melancholy. 

HANNAH    MORE    (ENGLAND,    1745-1833),    XIX.  323. 

220.  CcELEBS   IN    Search   of    a    Wife   (1809),   XII.    374.     1.  Marriage. 

2.  Character.  3.  Education.  A  didactic  novel  treating  of  the  proper 
mating  of  people,  education  of  children,  etc.  Various  types  of  English 
society  are  presented. 

FRANCES    BURNET    (ENGLAND,    1762-1840),    XIX.    73. 

221.  Evelina     (1778),     IV.     211.      1.  Character.     2.  Society.     3.  Love. 

The  heroine  is  a  girl  of  obscure  birth  who  is  thrust  into  polite  society 
ignorant  of  its  manners.  The  mistakes  she  makes  supply  largely  the 
incidents  of  the  story  and  form  the  critical  situations  of  the  plot.  The 
mystery  of  her  birth  is  cleared,  and  her  love  romance  terminates  happily. 

WILLIAM    GODWIN    (ENGLAND,    1756-1836),    XIX.    208. 

222.  Caleb  Williams  (1794),  IX.  135.     1.  Character.     2.  Crime  and  its 

Punishment.  3.  Remorse.  A  secretary  ferrets  out  the  secret  that 
his  employer  is  guilty  of  a  murder  for  which  he  has  permitted  an 
innocent  man  to  be  hanged.  Yet  in  other  respects  the  employer  is 
a  noble  man.  The  secretary  denounces  him  to  the  police,  then,  in 
remorse,  tries  to  save  him.  The  murderer  refuses  to  be  saved,  admits 
his  guilt,  charges  his  former  cowardice  to  an  overpowering  fear  of 
public  degradation,  and  dies,  leaving  his  secretary  the  victim  of  im- 
medicable remorse. 


36       ANALYSIS   OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES 

WILLIAM    BECKFOBD    (ENGLAND,    1769-1844),    XIX.    40. 

223.  Vathek:  An  Arabian  Tale  (1786),  II.  382.     1.  Magic.     2.  Imagina. 

tion.  3.  Extravaganza.  A  story  in  imitation  of  the  Arabian  Nights 
Entertainment,  employing  the  same  machinery  of  the  supernatural 
and  fantastic. 

(HERE  MAY  FOLLOW  617.) 
ANNE    KADCLIFFE    (ENGLAND,    1764-1833),    XIX.    348. 

224.  The  Romance  OF  THE  Forest  (1791),  XIII.  308.     1.  Crime      2.  Mel- 

odrama. A  high-born  Frenchman  flees  from  punishment  for  his 
many  crimes.  A  highwayman  forces  him  to  take  along  a  beautiful 
young  girl.  He  takes  up  his  residence  in  a  deserted  abbey  said  to  be 
haunted.  He  aids  the  designs  of  a  wicked  marquis  to  marry  her,  but 
she  is  rescued,  after  enduring  unspeakable  terrors  in  the  haunted  abbey, 
and  marries  a  brave  young  soldier. 

225.  The  Mysteries  of  Udolpho  (1794),  XIII.  318.     1.  Crime.     2.  Melo- 

drama. The  hair-raising  adventures  of  a  girl  in  a  castle  which  is  a 
den  of  thieves,  and  fitted  by  them  with  terrifying  machinery  to  give  it 
the  name  of  being  haunted.  She  is  rescued  and  reunited  to  her  lover, 
and  the  villains  are  punished. 

REGINA    MARIA    ROCHE    (IRELAND,    1766-1846),    XIX.    364. 

226.  The  Children  of  the  Abbey  (1798),    XIV.   108.     1.  Melodrama. 

2.  Crime.  A  romantic  tale  of  ladies  mistreated  by  villains,  of  stolen 
fortunes,  and  of  lovers  united  and  heirs  righted  in  the  end. 

MARIA    EDGEWORTH    (IRELAND,    1767-1849,)    XIX.    166. 

227.  Castle  Rackrent  (1800),  VIII.   132.     1.  Irish  Life   and  Character. 

2.  Rascality.  The  memoirs  of  a  fictitious  Irish  family,  told  by  a  loyal 
retainer,  who  reveals  the  successful  plot  of  his  own  rascally  son  to  get 
possession  of  the  property. 

228.  The  Absentee  (1812),  VIII.  138.     1.  Anglo-Irish  Life  and  Character. 

2.  Social  Reform.  3.  Rascality.  Owing  to  the  social  ambition  of 
the  wife,  an  Irish  landed  family  live  in  England,  where  the  husband  is 
unhappy,  and  the  wife  ridiculed.  The  son  goes  to  Ireland,  sees  the 
deplorable  condition  of  some  of  their  tenants,  frustrates  the  plot  of  a 
rascally  agent,  and  persuades  his  parents  to  return  home,  and  become 
model  landlords. 

WALTER    SCOTT    (SCOTLAND,    1771-1833),    XIX.    364. 

229.  Waverley  (1814),    XIV.    273.     1.  History.     2.  Love.     3.  Adventure. 

The  adventures  of  an  English  officer  among  Highlanders  in  the 
war  vsdth  the  Pretender,  Charles  Stuart,  and  his  love  complications 
with  two  Scotswomen. 

230.  Guy   Mannering    (1815),    XIV.    286.     1.  Adventure.     2.  Character. 

3.  Astrology.  4.  History.  A  romance  of  the  middle  of  the  18th 
century,  depicting  characters  of  the  time,   a  gipsy,  a  smuggler,  and  the 


ANALYSIS    OF   THE    WORLD'S    STORIES       37 

author's  tutor.  The  titular  hero  pretends  to  be  an  astrologer,  and 
casts  the  horoscope  of  the  real  hero,  which  is  singularly  verified  by  his 
romantic  career. 

231.  The  Antiquary  (1816),  XIV.  300.     1.  Character.     2.  Antiquarianism. 

3.  Love.  4.  History.  A  tale  of  the  closing  years  of  the  18th  cen- 
tury, in  which  are  presented  the  quaint  characters  of  an  antiquarian 
and  a  royal  bedesman  or  beggar.  There  is  a  love  plot  which  turns 
upon  the  recognition  of  a  natural  son. 

232.  The    Black  Dwarf    (1816),  XIV.    313.     1.  Character.     2.    History. 

3.  Love.  The  story  of  a  deformed  recluse  during  the  war  of  the 
Pretender  James.  He  prevents  a  girl  sacrificing  herself  in  marriage 
to  save  her  father. 

233.  OldMortality(1816),  XIV.  323.     1.  History.    2.  Character.    3.  Re- 

ligion. 4.  Love.  A  romance  of  the  rising  of  the  Covenanters  in  1679- 
1690.  Their  leader  is  the  chief  character  of  interest.  Colonel  Claver- 
house  and  the  Duke  of  Monmouth  appear  in  the  story.  With  the 
historical  narrative  is  entwined  a  love  romance. 

234.  Rob    Roy    (1817),    XIV.    337.     1.  History.     2.  Character.     3.  Love. 

A  story  of  the  chief  of  the  Macgregor  clan,  during  the  Revolution  of 
1715.  Various  types  of  Scotch  character  are  depicted,  and  a  love 
romance  is  intertwined  with  the  historical  narrative. 

235.  The  Heart  of  Midlothian  (1818),  XIV.  350.     1.  History.     2.  Bra- 

very. 3.  Character.  A  romance  of  the  Porteous  Riot  in  Edinburgh. 
A  girl  condemned  to  death  for  infanticide  is  saved  by  her  sister  walking 
to  London  and  procuring  a  pardon  from  Queen  CaroHne  through  inter- 
cession of  the  Duke  of  Argyle. 

236.  The  Bride  of  Lammermoor  (1819),  XIV.  363.     1 .  Tragedy.     2.  Char- 

acter.  3.  Poverty.  The  family  of  the  beloved  of  a  poor  gentleman 
separates  her  from  him,  and  cause  her  to  marry  another.  She  be- 
comes insane,  and  kills  her  husband  on  the  wedding  night.  The 
lover,  riding  to  a  duel  with  her  brother,  is  swallowed  up  in  a  quicksand. 
His  servant  is  a  quaint  character,  who  adopts  ludicrous  expedients  to 
conceal  his  master's  poverty. 

237.  A  Legend  of  Montrose  (1819),  XIV.  374.     1.  History.     2.  Charac- 

ter. 3.  Adventure.  A  Scotch  mercenary  who  had  served  under 
Gustavus  Adolphus  of  Sweden,  enhsts  under  the  Earl  of  Montrose, 
commander  of  the  Royalist  forces  in  Scotland  in  the  Revolution  against 
Charles  I.  Captured  and  imprisoned,  he  escapes  with  a  Highland 
chief.     A  love  story  is  intertvnned  with  the  narrative  of  adventure. 

238.  IvANHOE  (1819),  XIV.  386.     1.  History.     2.  Adventure.     3.   Chivalry. 

4.  Character.  5.  Witchcraft.  A  romance  of  chivalric  adventure  in 
the  days  of  Richard  I.  and  his  regent  John.  Robin  Hood,  the  outlaw, 
IS  a  character  in  the  book.  The  titular  hero  is  beloved  by  a  Jewess 
who  succors  him  in  prison.  He  becomes  her  champion  when  she  is 
tnea  for  witchcraft. 


38       ANALYSIS    OF   THE    WORLD'S    STORIES 

239.  The   Pirate   (1820),   XIV.   399.     1.  Piracy.     2.  History.     3.  Magic. 

The  love  romance  of  a  gallant  pirate  and  a  Shetland  girl.  Goffe,  a 
famous  pirate,  appears  in  the  story.  A  sibyl  plays  a  leading  part  in 
the  plot. 

240.  The  Monastery  (1820),  XIV.  413.     1.  History.     2.  Magic.     3.  Lit- 

erature. 4.  Religion.  A  tale  of  Elizabethan  days  in  Scotland, 
when  the  Reformed  religion  was  supplanting  the  Catholic.  A  tutelary 
spirit  of  a  family  plays  a  magical  part  in  the  plot.  An  interesting 
character  is  a  follower  of  Lyly,  the  English  dramatic  poet  who  intro- 
duced "Euphuism,"  or  affected  speaking,  into  the  royal  court. 

241.  The  Abbot  (1820),  XIV.   427.     1.  History.     2.  ReUgion.     A  sequel 

to  the  "Monastery,"  containing  an  account  of  the  imprisonment  of 
Queen  Mary  of  Scotland. 

242.  Kenilworth    (1821),    XV.    1.     1.  History.     2.  Tragedy.     The   story 

of  the  murder  of  the  wife  of  the  Earl  of  Leicester,  at  his  instigation. 
Queen  Elizabeth  and  her  courtiers  appear  in  the  story. 

243.  The  Fortunes  of  Nigel  (1822),  XV.  16.     1.  History.     2.  Business. 

The  career  of  George  Heriot,  founder  of  Heriot's  Hospital  in  Edin- 
burgh, who  rose  to  be  the  King's  goldsmith  and  banker.  With  this 
is  implicated  a  love  romance  concerning  his  god -daughter.  King 
James  I.  and  his  courtiers  appear  in  the  story. 

244.  Peveril  of   the    Peak   (1823),   XV.   32.     1.  History.     2.  Religion. 

Founded  on  the  alleged  conspiracy  of  the  Roman  Catholics  to  murder 
Charles  II.  and  re-establish  their  Church  in  England.  These  matters 
separate  two  lovers,  who  are  reunited  by  the  king. 

245.  QuENTiN  DuRWARD  (1823),  XV.  46.     1.  History.     2.  Love.     3.   Char- 

acter. The  hero  is  a  Scots  soldier  in  the  service  of  Louis  XL  of 
France  during  his  trouble  with  the  Duke  of  Burgimdy.  By  his 
bravery  he  vnns  the  hand  of  a  princess.  Delineation  of  the  char- 
acter of  Louis  XI.  is  notable. 

246.  St.    Ronan's    Well    (1823),    XV.    62.     1.  Tragedy.     2.  Character. 

The  scene  is  laid  at  a  watering-place,  where  various  types  of  character 
are  assembled.  A  wronged  girl  dies,  and  her  brother  kills  her  undoer 
in  a  duel. 

247.  Red  Gauntlet  (1824),  XV.  74.     1.  History.     2.  Loyalty.     A  tale  of 

the  loyalty  of  a  family  to  the  Pretender,  Charles  Edward. 

248.  The  Betrothed  (1825),  XV.   88.     1.  History.     2.  Love.     A  knight 

goes  to  the  Crusades  leaving  his  betrothed  in  charge  of  his  nephew. 
Though  loving  each  other  each  remains  true  to  the  trust.  The  knight 
returns  and  confutes  the  scandal  that  a  villain  has  spread  abroad. 
The  villain  is  slain  by  an  assassin  in  error  for  the  knight.  The  knight 
unites  the  lovers. 


ANALYSIS    OF    THE    WORLD'S    STORIES       39 

249.  The  Talisman  (1825),  XV.  102.     1.  History.     2.  Chivalry.     3.  Char- 

acter. A  tale  of  the  Crusades  in  which  the  contrast  between  Oriental 
and  Occidental  character  is  presented.  The  hero  is  David,  Prince 
Royal  of  Scotland.  Richard  I.  of  England  and  Saladin,  the  Saracen, 
appear  in  the  story. 

250.  Woodstock  (1826),  XV.  116.     1.  History.     A  tale  of  the  English  Revo- 

lution, immediately  after  the  defeat  of  Charles  II.  by  Cromwell  at  the 
battle  of  Worcester.  The  King  is  saved  from  capture  by  a  loyal  subject 
who  impersonates  him,  and  who  is  condemned  to  death  by  Cromwell, 
and  saved  upon  reconsideration. 

251.  The  Fair  Maid  of  Perth  (1828),  XV.  130.     1.  History.     2.  Heroism. 

A  young  armorer  defends  his  sweetheart  from  David,  son  of 
Robert  III.  of  Scotland,  who  would  carry  her  away.  He  afterward 
takes  part  as  a  substitute  in  a  duel  between  two  Highland  clans,  and 
refuses  knighthood  and  wealth  which  the  Black  Douglas  would  confer 
on  him  for  his  bravery. 

252.  Anne    of    Geierstein    (1829),    XV.    144.     1.  History.     2.  Loyalty. 

3.  Adventure.  The  adventures  of  a  young  Englishman  among  the 
Swiss  at  the  time  of  their  war  with  the  Duke  of  Burgundy.  The  hero 
wins  the  love  of  a  daughter  of  a  Swiss  noble,  who  sanctions  their  mar- 
riage on  the  eve  of  his  parting  on  a  dangerous  quest — the  killing  of  the 
Duke  of  Burgundy  at  the  command  of  the  Vehmegericht,  or  Secret 
Tribunal. 

253.  Count  Robert  of  Paris  (1831),  XV.  159.     1.  History.     2.  Adven- 

ture. 3.  Animals.  A  knight  of  the  First  Crusade  has  many  adven- 
tures at  the  court  of  Alexius  Comnenus  of  Constantinople.  Cast  into 
a  dungeon,  he  kills  a  tiger  that  he  finds  therein  and  subdues  an  orang- 
utan. He  fights  in  single  combat  with  Hereward,  the  English  patriot 
and  outlaw,  and  spares  his  life  at  the  request  of  his  vnie's  attendant, 
who  is  in  love  with  Hereward. 

264.  Castle  Dangerous  (1831),  XV.  174.  1.  History.  2.  Chivalry.  Rob- 
ert Bruce  is  battling  against  Edward  I.  of  England.  An  English  knight 
enters  into  single  combat  with  Sir  James  Douglas  for  the  possession  of 
Douglas  Castle,  and  of  the  lady  love  of  the  Englishman.  Only  on 
hearing  of  Bruce's  victory  does  he  yield  to  Douglas,  and  then  he  is 
ordered  to  surrender  himself  to  his  beloved. 


MA.TTHEW    GREGORY    LEWIS    (ENGLAND,    1775-1818).    XIX.  293. 

255.  The  Monk  (1795),  XII.  11.  1.  Magic.  2.  Religion.  3.  Melodrama. 
A  monk  yields  to  temptation,  and  becomes  a  monster  of  hypocrisy, 
lust,  and  murder.  He  sells  his  soul  to  the  devil,  who  requires  it  in 
person- 


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JANE    AUSTEN    (ENGLAND,    1775-1817),    XIX.    21. 

266.  Sense  and  Sensibility  (1811),  I.  377.     1.  Character.     2.  Marriage. 

3.  Love.  4.  Family  Life.  A  story  of  English  country  gentry,  pre- 
senting shrewd  studies  of  character,  especially  in  relation  to  affairs 
of  the  heart,  in  which  the  common-sense  attitude  is  contrasted  with 
the  emotional. 

267.  Pride  and  Prejudice  (1813),  I.  387.     1.  Character.     2.  Marriage. 

3.  Love.  4.  Family  Life.  A  story  of  the  love  affairs  of  two  sisters 
which  are  complicated  by  pride  of  birth  and  prejudice  against  character 
in  the  parties  themselves  and  their  relatives. 

268.  Mansfield      Park      (1814),     I.      398.     1.  Character.     2.  Marriage. 

3.  Love.  4.  Family  Life.  A  story  in  which  traits  of  character  are 
exhibited  in  family  relations,  pleasant  and  unpleasant,  and  in  marriages, 
happy  and  unhappy. 

269.  Emma  (1815),  I.  408.     1.  Character.     2.  Marriage.    3.  Love.     4.  Fam- 

ily Life.  A  story  of  English  country  gentry,  in  which  a  number  of 
interinvolved  love  affairs  are  presented,  that  of  the  heroine  remaining 
to  the  last,  because  dependent  on  the  straightening  out  of  all  the  others. 

260.  Persuasion    (1818),    I.    418.     1.  Character.     2.  Marriage.     3.  Love. 

4.  Family  Life.  A  story  of  English  country  gentry,  in  which  a  number 
of  love  affairs  are  involved.  The  heroine  has  been  persuaded  to  break 
her  engagement  to  a  young  man  because  both  families  object  to  the 
alliance.  Later,  these  objections  are  removed,  and  the  marriage  takes 
place. 

261.  NORTHANGER      Abbey     (1818),     I.      427.      1.  Character.      2.  Love. 

3.  Family  Life.  Fashionable  life  at  Bath  and  home  life  at  a  country 
seat  are  depicted.  There  are  several  love  affairs,  the  principal  one 
being  complicated  by  the  objections  of  the  man's  father,  which  are 
finally  removed. 

JANE   PORTER    (ENGLAND,    1776-1850),    XIX.    343. 

262.  Thaddeus   of   Warsaw   (1803),    XIII.    248.     1.  History.     2.  Melo- 

drama. A  Polish  noble  who  has  fought  unsuccessfully  to  free  his 
country  from  the  tyranny  of  Catherine  of  Russia,  flees  to  England, 
where  he  falls  in  love.  Discovering,  as  he  thinks,  that  a  disreputable 
English  nobleman  is  his  father,  he  discontinues  his  suit.  Later,  he 
finds  that  his  father  is  another  English  lord,  of  high  character.  The 
lord  recognizes  him  as  his  son  and  he  marries  the  lady  of  his  love. 

263.  The  Scottish  Chiefs  (1810),    XIII.    260.     1.   History.     2.  Tragedy. 

A  love  romance  founded  on  the  career  of  William  Wallace,  the  hero 
of  Scotland.  He  marries  the  heroine  on  the  day  of  his  execution,  and 
•he  dies  of  grief  of  remembrance  on  the  day  Robert  Bruce  is  crowned. 

THOMAS    MOORE    (IRELAND,    1779-1862),    XIX.    322. 

264.  The  Epicurean  (1827),  XII.   368.     1.  PhUosophy.    2.  Archaeology. 


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3.  Religion.  A  recreation  of  Egyptian  life  and  customs  in  tiic  early 
days  of  Christianity  when  it  was  in  conflict  with  Greek  pagan  phil- 
osophy, especially  that  of  Epicurus. 

JOHN    GALT    (SCOTLAND,    1779-1839).    XIX.    197. 

265.  Lawrie  Todd  (1832),  IX.  88.     1.  Pioneer  Life.     2.  Labor.     3.  His- 

tory. The  experiences  of  a  Scotch  settler  in  the  Genesee  valley  of 
New  York  State  about  1800.  He  rears  a  family,  develops  a  nail- 
making  industry  and  other  enterprises  at  Rochester,  visits  Scotland, 
and,  though  almost  a  dwarf  in  stature,  and  of  middle  age,  brings  home 
a  fine  young  widow  as  his  wife,  thereby  disappointing  an  aged  spinster. 

GEORGE   CROLT    (IRELAND.    1780-1860).    XIX.    107. 

266.  Salathiel   (1827),   VI.    49.     1.  Legend.     2.  History.     3.  Adventure. 

4.  Religion.  5.  Magic.  The  romance  of  the  Wandering  Jew,  who, 
assuming  the  responsibility  for  Jesus's  death,  was  condemned  to  roam 
the  earth  till  the  Second  Coming.  He  meets  with  many  adventures: 
is  at  the  burning  of  Rome  by  Nero;  leads  the  revolt  of  the  Jews  of  Pal- 
estine against  Rome,  and  beholds  the  fall  of  Jerusalem,  and  the  triumph 
of  Titus;  leads  Alaric  the  Goth  against  Rome;  inspires  Mohammed 
to  avenge  the  Jews,  maltreated  by  the  Christians,  and  brings  the  Cru- 
saders to  expell  the  Saracens  from  the  Temple  at  Jerusalem  which  they 
had  polluted.  He  is  seized  with  the  passions  of  invention  and  discovery, 
becoming  an  alchemist,  and  one  of  the  first  printers,  and  a  companion 
of  Columbus.  He  becomes  a  poet  with  Petrarch,  an  artist  with  Angelo, 
a  reformer  with  Luther,  etc. 

JAMES    J.    MORIER    (ENGLAND.    1780-1849).    XIX.    324. 

267.  The  Adventures  of  Hajji  Baba    of    Ispahan   (1824),   XII.   383. 

1.  Persian  Life.  2.  Adventure.  The  wandering  adventures  of  a 
clever,  unscrupulous  young  Persian,  who  finally  achieves  a  brilliant 
success. 

CHARLES    MATURIN    (IRELAND.    1782-1824),    XIX.    314. 

268.  Melmoth  the  Wanderer  (1820),  XII.  249.     1.  Madness.     2.  Magic. 

3.  The  Inquisition.  4.  Hindu  Mythology.  5.  Tragedy.  A  wild 
tale  of  a  madman,  of  whom  the  devil  had  prophesied  that  he  would 
become  insane.  He  describes  the  horrors  of  the  Inquisition,  and  the 
murderous  worship  of  the  Hindu  goddess  Kali,  and  the  story  ends  with 
his  self  murder. 

SUSAN    E.    FERRIER    (SCOTLAND,    1782-1854).    XIX.    178. 

269.  The  Inheritance  (1824),  VIII.  290.     1.  Wealth.     2.  Love.     3.  Char- 

acter. The  troubles  of  a  headstrong  girl  who  has  become  heir  of  a 
rich  estate.  Her  mother,  her  betrothed,  who  is  a  fortune-hunter,  and 
her  guardian,  who  truly  loves  her,  order  her  life  and  affairs  contrary 
to  her  liking,  the  mother  and  betrothed  for  the  worse,  the  guardian  for 


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the  better.  At  last  she  disobeys  her  mother's  commands  to  bear  the 
insolence  of  a  strange  man,  and  he  reveals  himself  as  her  father.  She 
loses  her  wealth,  her  betrothed  jilts  her,  and  her  guardian  proposes  to 
her.  It  then  transpires  that  her  putative  father  is  an  impostor,  and 
all  ends  happily. 

THOMAS   LOVE    PEACOCK    (ENGLAND,    1785-1886),     XIX.    338. 

270.  Headlong  Hall  (1816),  XIII.  189.     1.  Character.     2.  Enghsh  Coun- 

try Life.  A  study  of  eccentric  types  of  character  gathered  together 
in  an  EngUsh  country  house. 

THOMAS  DE  ftriNCT  (ENGLAND,  1786-1859),  XIX.  188. 

271.  The  Avenger   (1853),   VI.   366.     1.  Crime.     2.  Tragedy.     3.  Love. 

A  French  officer  is  captured  and  tortured  to  death  by  a  jailer  in  a  Ger- 
man town.  His  wife,  a  Jewess,  is  subjected  to  inhimian  treatment 
by  the  citizens.  Years  after  their  son  comes  incognito  to  the  town  and 
wreaks  terrible  vengeance  on  their  abusers,  even  killing  one  man  with 
whose  granddaughter  he  had  fallen  in  love. 

MICHAEL    SCOTT    (SCOTLAND,    1789-1836),    XIX.    363. 

272.  Tom  Cringle's  Log  (1833),  XIV.  264.     1.  Sea  Life  and  Character. 

2.  History.  3.  Adventure.  The  log  of  a  British  sailor  during  the 
War  of  1812  with  the  United  States. 

FREDERICK    MARRTAT    (ENGLAND,    1798-1848),    XIX.    313. 

273.  JAPHET  IN  Search  of  a  Father  (1836),  XII.  214.     1.  Adventure. 

2.  Gipsy  Life.  The  story  of  a  foundHng's  many  and  varied  adven- 
tures— among  gipsies  and  high  society — undertaken  to  find  his  father, 
which  he  finally  does  among  the  aristocracy. 

274.  Mr.  Midshipman  Easy  (1836),  XII.  226.     1.  Sea  Life.     2.  Satire. 

3.  Adventure.  A  story  of  the  adventures  of  a  young  naval  oflScer. 
The  author  satirizes  the  democratic  doctrine  of  equal  natural  rights 
by  showing  the  hero  in  his  ridiculous  attempts  to  assert  them  on  ship- 
board. 

275.  The   Little    Savage   (1848),    XII.    237.     1.  Youth.     2.  Adventure. 

3.  Rehgion.  4.  Animals.  The  story  of  a  boy  Crusoe,  who  grows  up 
in  savagery,  obeying  his  natural  impulses  until  taught  better  things 
by  a  woman  missionary.  A  pet  seal  is  one  of  the  interesting  features 
of  the  story. 

WILLIAM    CARLETON    (IRELAND,    1794-1869),    XIX.    83. 

276.  Willy  Reilly  (1855),  IV.  301.     1.  Religious  Persecution.     2.  Love. 

3.  Insanity.  The  love  of  a  Catholic  man  and  a  Protestant  girl  during 
the  reUgious  strife  in  Ireland.  The  heroine  becomes  insane  over  the 
conviction  of  her  lover,  but  recovers  her  reason  on  his  release  from 
prison. 


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MART     WOIXSTONECRAFT     SHELLEY     (ENGLAND,     1797-1851, 
XIX.    373. 

277.  Frankenstein     (1816),     XV.     238.     1.  Imagination.      2.  Allegory. 

3.  Magic.  A  man  endows  a  human  monster  whom  he  has  formed, 
with  life,  and  this  pursues  its  creator  to  his  death. 

SAMUEL   LOVER    (IRELAND,    1797-1868),    XIX.  298. 

278.  Handy    Andy    (1842),     XII.     52.     1.  Humor.     2.  Irish     Character. 

The  amusing  bulls  and  blunders  of  a  raw  young  Irishman. 

JOHN    BANIM    (IRELAND,    1798-1848),    XLX.    33. 

279.  BoYNE  Water  (1826),  II.  287.     1.  History.     2.  Patriotism.     3.  Love. 

4.  Tragedy.  5.  Divination.  A  romance  of  civil  war  in  Ireland 
(James  II.  vs.  Wilham  III.).  A  Protestant  brother  and  sister  love 
a  Catholic  sister  and  brother  respectively,  but  are  divided  by  the  war. 
A  witch  foretells  a  tragic  outcome  for  one  match  and  a  happy  one  for 
the  other,  which  prophecy  is  realized.  Historic  characters  introduced 
are:  Generals  Kirke,  Schomberg,  and  Sarsfield. 

LEITCH    RITCHIE    (SCOTLAND,    1800-1865),    XIX.    353. 

280.  The  Robber  or  the  Rhine  (1833),  XIV.  77.     1.  History.     2.  Crime. 

A  romance  founded  on  the  career  of  the  famous  bandit  Schinderhannes; 

G.    P.     R.   JAMES    (ENGLAND,    1801-1860),    XIX.    373. 

281.  Henry     Masterton     (1832),     XI.     85.     1.  History.     2.  Adventure. 

3.  Love.  The  romantic  adventures  in  love  and  war,  in  England  and 
France,  of  a  Cavalier  in  the  English  Revolution.  Generals  Ireton 
and  St.  Maur  appear  in  the  story. 

HARRIET    MARTINEAU    (ENGLAND,    1803-1876),    XIX.    314. 

282.  The  Hour  and  the  Man  (1840),  XII.  203.     1.  History.     2.  Heroism. 

3.  Slavery.  A  romance  of  the  career  of  Toussaint  L'Ouverture,  the 
heroic  liberator  of  San  Domingo.     Napoleon  I.  appears  in  the  story. 

EDWARD    GEORGE    EARLE    BULWER-LYTTON    (ENGLAND, 

1803-1873),    XIX.    71. 

283.  Falkland  (1827),  III.  335.     1.  Melodrama.     2.  Psychic  Phenomena. 

A  man  of  compelling  will,  who  has  tempted  beyond  her  resistance  a 
married  woman  to  elope  with  him,  meets  her  ghost  at  the  assignation. 

284.  Pelham:  or,  Adventures  of  a  Gentleman  (1827),  III.  340.     1.  Gam- 

bling. 2.  Melodrama.  3.  Society.  A  titled  gambler  betrays  a 
girl  and  her  lover  plots  his  ruin.  The  gambler  is  miirdercd,  and  the 
teller  of  the  story  believes  his  enemy  has  killed  him.  Being  in  love 
with  the  sister  of  the  suspected  assassin,  the  story-teller  avoids  her  and 
him,  whereupon  the  suspect  proves  his  innocence. 


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285.  The    Disowned    (1828),    III.    355.     1.  Melodrama.     2.  Society.     A 

son  whose  mother  had  eloped  after  his  birth  with  a  lover,  is  disowned 
by  his  putative  father.  The  young  man,  after  various  vicissitudes, 
attains  a  position  in  society,  and  falls  in  love.  The  girl's  parents,  how- 
ever, object  to  him  because  of  his  vmknown  antecedents,  and  favor 
another  suitor.  The  lover  discovers  that  his  rival  is  his  half  brother, 
and  suffers  the  imputation  of  cowardice  rather  than  fight  him.  Then 
the  "Disowned"  is  acknowledged  as  his  son  and  heir  by  his  father, 
and  all  is  made  right. 

286.  Deverexjx  (1829),  III.  365.     1.  Adventure.     2.  Melodrama.     3.  His- 

tory. A  tale  of  enmity  between  twin  brothers,  each  of  whom  loves  a 
third  younger  brother.  The  younger  lad  falls  under  the  influence  of 
a  priest,  who  is  scheming  for  the  restoration  of  the  Stuarts,  and 
contrives  the  villainy  which  one  twin  supposes  practised  against  him 
by  the  other.     Lord  BoKngbroke  enters  as  a  character  into  the  story. 

287.  Paul  Clifford   (1830),    III.   378.     1.  Crime.     2.  Melodrama.    The 

hero  is  a  robber,  who  is  represented  as  possessed  of  an  heroic  and  even 
tender  nature.     He  is  reclaimed  from  his  evil  life. 

288.  Eugene  Aram  (1832),  III.  391.     1.  Crime.     2.  History.     3.  Charac- 

ter. A  novelization  of  a  real  murder,  in  which  the  character  of  the 
criminal,  a  man  of  education,  is  made  the  subject  of  special  presentation. 

289.  GoDOi.PHiN  (1833),  III.  406.     1.  Character.     2.  Love.     3.  Astrology. 

4.  Politics.  5.  The  Theater.  6.  Tragedy.  The  hero  is  a  young 
man  swayed  by  various  influences  and  interests,  astrology,  politics, 
the  theater,  etc.,  chiefly  represented  in  the  persons  of  women.  His 
end  is  tragic. 

290.  The  Last  Days  of  Pompeii  (1834),  III.  415.     1.  History.     2.  Archae- 

ology. 3.  Love.  4.  Tragedy.  A  novel  based  upon  the  tragic 
historic  event  of  the  destruction  by  earthquake  of  Pompeii.  A  blind 
girl  is  the  distinctive  character  of  the  story. 

291.  Rienzi:  The  Last  of    the  Tribunes    (1835),   IV.    1.     1.  History. 

2.  Tragedy.  3.  Love.  The  principal  and  titular  character  is  an 
historic  personage,  a  mediaeval  dictator  of  Rome  who  strove  to  save  the 
state  from  the  feuds  of  the  houses  of  Orsini  and  Colonna.  The  interest 
of  romance  is  added  to  that  of  history  by  developing  the  part  played 
by  his  wife  in  the  situation  which  culminated  in  his  assassination. 

292.  Ernest    Maltravers    (1837),    IV.     13.     1.  Melodrama.     2.  Crime. 

3.  Love.  A  daughter  of  an  assassin  saves  the  life  of  a  handsome 
young  traveller,  and  he  takes  her  into  his  household  and  educates  her. 
She  loves  him,  but  he  is  in  love  with  a  high-bom  lady.  This  woman 
is  done  to  death  by  two  villains,  one  of  whom  becomes  a  maniac,  after 
shouldering  the  sole  responsibility  of  the  villainy. 

293.  Alice;  or.  The  Mysteries  (1838),  IV.  26.     1.  Melodrama.    2.  Crime. 

3.  Love.  A  sequel  to  "Ernest  Maltravers."  The  hero  is  about  to 
wed  a  young  girl,  when  he  is  told  that  she  is  his  child  by  the  assassin's 


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daughter,  who  had  been  stolen  away  from  him.  He  finds  the  mother 
and  learns  the  story  is  untrue,  and  they  are  united  over  the  grave  of 
the  true  child.  The  chief  of  the  villains  who  separated  them,  now  be- 
come a  lord,  is  strangled  by  his  tool,  the  maniac,  who  thereupon 
drowns  himself. 

294.  Leila;    or.  The   Siege  of  Granada  (1838),   IV.   40.     1.  History. 

2.  Love.  3.  Religious  Persecution.  4.  Magic.  A  romance  based 
upon  the  Spanish  conquest  of  the  Moors.  The  heroine  is  a  beautiful 
Jewess,  beloved  by  Muza,  the  chief  general  of  Boabdil,  the  Moorish 
king.  Her  father,  a  sorcerer,  gives  her  as  a  hostage  for  the  Jews  to 
Ferdinand,  the  Spanish  king.  Through  Queen  Isabella  and  Torque- 
mada  she  is  converted  to  Christianity.  Her  father  slays  her  as  she  is 
about  to  take  the  nun's  veil,  and  he  is  torn  in  pieces  by  the  mob. 

295.  Night    and    Morning    (1841),    IV.    51.     1.  Melodrama.     2.  Crime. 

3.  Character.  4.  Love.  Two  brothers  are  robbed  of  their  inheri- 
tance by  their  uncle.  The  elder,  a  high-strung  and  bold  spirit,  refuses 
to  compound  for  the  injury,  while  the  younger,  a  weaker  soul,  does  so. 
They  love  the  same  woman,  and  the  elder  resigns  her  to  the  younger;  he 
is  rewarded,  however,  by  the  realization  that  his  benevolence  to  an 
outcast  girl  has  insensibly  grown  into  love. 

296.  Zanoni  (1842),  IV.  61.     1.  Magic.     2.  Love.     3.  History.     4.  Trag- 

edy. The  hero  is  a  Rosi  crucian  who  barters  supernatural  power 
for  love,  substituting  himself  for  his  wife  as  the  victim  of  the  guillotine 
in  the  Reign  of  Terror.  Robespierre,  Desmoulins,  Nicot,  and  Rend 
Dumas  appear  as  characters  in  the  story. 

297.  The  Last  of  the  Barons  (1843),  IV.  73.     1.  History.     2.  Invention. 

3.  Politics.  4.  Love.  5.  Magic.  A  love  romance  founded  on  the 
War  of  the  Roses.  It  is  democratic  in  spirit.  One  of  the  characters 
is  an  inventor  who  is  looked  upon  as  a  wizard.  King  Edward  IV.  is 
represented  in  an  evil  light,  and  Warwick,  the  King-maker,  the  titular 
hero,  in  a  favorable  one.  Richard  of  Gloucester,  the  Duke  of  Clarence, 
Margaret  of  Anjou,  Henry  VI.,  Friar  Bungay,  the  necromancer,  and 
other  historic  personages  appear  in  the  story. 

298.  Lucretia;    or.    The    Children   of   the   Night    (1847),    IV.   155. 

1.  Crime.  2.  Insanity.  3.  Tragedy.  The  titular  character  by  in- 
trigue attains  social  position,  and  by  murder  attempts  to  retain  it.  She 
is  exposed,  however,  by  a  man  whom  she  has  poisoned  to  close  his 
mouth,  and  who  proves  to  be  her  own  son,  upon  the  discovery  of  which 
she  goes  mad. 

299.  Harold   (1848),   IV.   84.     1.  History.     2.  Love.     3.  Magic.     A   love 

romance  founded  on  the  Norman  Conquest.  Astrology,  and  sorcery 
play  an  important  part  in  the  mechanism  of  the  plot  Edward  the 
Confessor,  William  the  Conqueror,  Earl  Godwin  and  his  sons,  especially 
Harold,  who  is  the  titular  hero,  and  other  historic  personages,  are 
characters  in  the  story. 


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300.  The  Caxtons  (1849),   IV.  95.     1.  Character.     2.  Humor.     3.  Busi- 

ness. 4.  Rascality.  Various  types  of  character  in  a  family,  the 
absent-minded  scholar,  who  is  the  father,  the  sanguine  promoter,  who 
is  the  uncle,  th^  rascal  cousin,  who  is  reclaimed,  etc.,  presented  in  a 
humorous  vein. 

301.  My   Novel    (1853),    IV.    106.     1.  Character.     2.  Humor.     3.  Melo- 

drama. 4.  Politics.  5.  Journahsm.  6.  Love.  A  novel  in  diverse 
veins,  containing  humorous  sketches  of  village  characters,  such  as  a 
doctor,  an  Italian  exile  who  is  restored  at  the  end  to  his  noble  rank 
at  home;  an  idyllic  romance  of  a  poor  poet  and  an  outcast  girl;  studies 
of  journalism  and  politics,  all  woven  into  a  somewhat  conventional 
melodramatic  plot  of  mistaken  identity  disclosed,  and  villainy  un- 
masked. 

302.  What  Will  He  Do  with  It?  (1858),  IV.  122.     1.  Character.     2.  Mel- 

odrama. 3.  Love.  4.  Crime.  A  study  of  English  domestic  life,  with 
a  melodramatic  plot,  in  which  one  character  stands  out  with  distinction 
— a  woman  who  frustrates  the  plans  of  her  villainous  lover,  to  keep 
him  in  her  power. 

303.  A  Strange  Story  (1862),  IV.  134.    1.  Magic.    2.  Medicine.    3.  Crime. 

An  Englishman  murders  an  Arabian  sorcerer,  and  gains  possession  of 
an  elixir  imparting  youth  and  magical  powers.  Returning  to  England, 
he  uses  his  black  arts  to  attach  to  himself  a  girl  of  mediumistic  tempera- 
ment.    Her  lover,  however,  a  doctor,  frustrates  him. 

304.  The   Coming   Race   (1871),    IV.    163.     1.  Science.     2.  Imagination. 

3.  Sociology.  A  mining  engineer  penetrates  into  an  underworld, 
inhabited  by  people  who  have  advanced  far  beyond  our  race  in  science, 
industry,  and  social  organization.  They  have  especially  developed 
the  power  of  the  will  into  a  force  called  vril,  which  is  an  agent  of  either 
destruction  or  construction. 

306.  Kenelm  Chillingly  (1872),  IV.  144.  1.  Character.  2.  Love.  3. 
3.  Renunciation.  4.  Art.  The  hero  is  a  young  man  of  strong  though 
eccentric  personality.  He  renounces  a  girl,  whose  love  he  had  won, 
to  her  benefactor,  an  artist,  whose  inspiration  she  is.  The  girl  dies, 
before  her  marriage,  with  a  broken  heart. 

306.  The   Parisians   (1873),    IV.    171.     1.  Parisian    Society.     2.  Politics. 

3.  Love.  A  love  romance  dealing  with  typical  characters  in  Parisian 
society  and  politics  during  the  Second  Empire,  and  the  Franco-Prus- 
sian War. 

307.  Pausanias    the    Spartan    (1875),    IV.    179.     1.  History.     2.  Love. 

3.  Tragedy.  An  historical  romance  based  on  the  story  of  the  Spar- 
tan regent  who  slew  by  mistake  his  beloved,  as  she  stole  by  night  to 
his  couch. 


ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES       47 

GERALD    GKITFIN    (IRELAND,    1803-1840),    XIX.    235. 

308.  The   Collegians    (1828),    IX.    274.     1.  Tragedy.     2.  Character.     A 

young  Irish  gentleman,  spoiled  by  his  mother,  secretly  marries  a  peasant 
girl;  later  he  is  dragged  by  his  mother  into  marriage  with  a  woman 
of  his  rank.  He  orders  his  servant  to  get  his  real  wife  out  of  the  way, 
which  the  servant  interprets  as  an  order  for  her  murder.  This  man 
kills  her  and  is  assaulted  by  the  husband.  The  servant  denounces  him 
to  the  police,  and  he  is  apprehended  for  the  crime,  and,  despite  his 
mother's  protest,  confesses  it.  The  mental  torture  of  the  husband  is 
admirably  portrayed. 

GEORGE    HENRT    BORROW    (ENGLAND,    1803-1881).    XIX.    60. 

309.  Lavengro:    The   Scholar— The   Gipsy— The   Priest  (1851),  III. 

151.  Gipsy  Life.  2.  Adventure.  3.  Autobiography.  4.  Author- 
ship. 5.  Religious  Fanaticism.  6.  Boxing.  A  semi-autobiographical 
romance  of  rambling  adventure  in  Scotland,  Ireland,  and  Wales,  chiefly 
among  gipsies.  The  hero  is  about  to  be  killed  by  a  mad  gipsy  woman 
when  he  is  rescued  by  a  Welsh  preacher,  a  fanatic.  He  beats  a  bully 
in  a  fist  fight  and  wins  the  admiration  of  a  woman  of  the  bully's  follow- 
ing, who  becomes  the  hero's  companion. 

BENJAMIN    DISRAELI,    EARL    OF    BEACONSFIELD    (ENG- 
LAND,   1806-1881),    XIX.    153. 

310-  Vivian     Grey     (1826),     VII.     133.     1.  Autobiography.     2.  Politics. 

3.  History.  4.  Gambling.  5.  Love.  A  romance  of  a  young  man's 
career  in  love  and  politics.  The  hero  is  a  portrait  of  the  author,  and 
the  following  personages  of  the  time  are  represented  under  assumed 
ni.mes:  Wellington,  Prince  Esterhazy,  the  rich  Mrs.  Coutts,  Prince 
Gortschakoff,  the  Marquis  of  Hertford,  Theodore  Hook,  and  Lord 
Brougham.     Gambling  at  a  German  watering-place  is  vividly  described. 

311.  The  Young  Duke  (1831),    VII.  147.     1.  English  Nobility.     2.  Poli- 

tics. 3.  Love.  A  romance  of  titled  folk,  dealing  with  intrigues  in 
love  and  politics.  The  triumph  in  Parliament  of  the  hero  is  strangely 
prophetic  of  the  author's  subsequent  career. 

312.  CoNTARiNi  Fleming  (1832),  VII.   158.     1.  Travel.     2.  Psychic  Phe- 

nomena. 3.  Authorship.  4.  Autobiography.  A  young  German 
noble,  son  of  an  Italian  woman,  visits  Italy — where  he  snatches  from 
the  altar  a  girl  about  to  become  a  bride  of  the  church — Spain,  the  Holy 
Land,  and  other  countries.  The  places  he  visits  he  has  anticipated  in 
dreams.  The  romance  is  semi-autobiographical  in  its  account  of  the 
hero's  novel-writing. 

313.  Alroy     (1833),     VII.      169.     1.  History.     2.  Adventure.     3.  Magic. 

4.  Religion.  5.  Tragedy.  A  romance,  paitly  historical,  partly  imagi- 
native, of  a  Jewish  "Prince  of  the  Captivity,"  telling  of  the  hero's 
battles,  mystical  adventures,  unfortunate  love,  and  tragic  death. 


48       ANALYSIS   OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES 

314.  Henrietta     Temple     (1836),     VII.     182.     1.  English     Aristocracy. 

2.  Love.  A  romance  of  the  upper  English  classes,  in  which  love  is 
represented  as  an  immediate  and  intuitive  perception  of  afl&nity  which 
knows  no  barrier  of  disparity  of  age. 

315.  Venetia    (1837),    VII.     192.     1.  History.     2.  Authorship.    3.  Love. 

4.  Tragedy.  A  story  of  tragic  love,  founded  on  the  true  romances 
of  Byron  and  Shelley,  who,  with  Byron's  uncle  and  mother,  Shelley's 
daughter  (the  heroine).  Bishop  Wilberforce,  and  others,  are  repre- 
sented under  assumed  names. 

316.  CoNiNGSBY  (1844),  VII.  203.     1.  PoUtics.     2.  Social  Reform.     3.  His- 

tory. 4.  Love.  The  career  of  a  young  statesman,  intent  on  improv- 
ing social  conditions.  He  is  beloved  and  aided  by  noblewomen,  and 
he  has  brilliant  men  as  political  foes  and  allies.  Among  these  may  be 
mentioned  the  following  statesmen  appearing  under  assumed  names: ! 
Gladstone,  Bright,  Baron  de  Rothschild,  and  the  Marquess  of  Hert- 
ford, Baron  von  Humboldt,  and  Theodore  Hook  are  also  found  thinly  |_ 
disguised  in  its  pages. 

317.  Sybil  (1845),  VII.  217.     1.  PoliUcs.     2.  Social  Reform.     3.  History^ 

4.  Labor.     5.  Love.     The  events  cover  the  period  of  industrial  de 
pression  in  England  from  1837  to  1842.     The  hero,  a  member  of  Par-" 
liament,  leads  an  agitation  for  the  relief  of  the  workingmen.     These 
rise  in  riots,  incited  by  the  hero's  rival  in  love,  who  is  killed.     The  hero 
saves  his  sweetheart  from  the  rioters. 

318.  Tancred     (1847),     VII.     227.     1.  Religion.     2.  Magic.    3.  History. 

4.  Adventure.  5.  Love.  A  romance  of  Oriental  love  and  adventure, 
tinged  with  mysticism,  intended  to  harmonize  Christianity  and  Judaism. 
Baron  de  Rothschild  and  other  of  the  author's  contemporaries  appear 
in  the  story  under  fictitious  names. 

319.  Lothair     (1870),     VII.     235.     1.  Religion.     2.  History.     3.  English 

Aristocracy.  A  novel  based  on  the  AngUcan  movement  toward  Roman 
Catholicism,  and  the  Italian  Revolution  under  Garibaldi.  The  chief 
characters  are  members  of  the  English  aristocracy.  Lothair,  the  hero, 
represents  in  character  the  Marquis  of  Bute;  other  persons  in  real  life 
represented  are  Cardinal  Manning,  Professor  Goldwin  Smith,  Mon- 
signore  Capel,  etc. 

320.  Endymion  (1880),  VII.  249.     1.  Autobiography.     2.  History.     3.  Pol- 

itics. A  romance  founded  on  the  author's  own  rise  to  the  premiership. 
Public  characters  represented  under  fictitious  names  are :  the  Roths-  i 
childs.  Queen  Hortense  of  Belgium,  Napoleon  III.,  Bismarck,  the 
Earl  of  Derby,  Lord  Palmerston,  Cardinal  Wiseman,  Harcourt,  Lady 
Burdett-Coutts,  Richard  Cobden,  Dickens,  Thackeray,  et  al. 

WHXIAM  HARRISON  AINSWORTH  (ENGLAND,  1805-1882),  XIX.  6. 

321.  The  Tower  of   London   (1840),   I.   94.     1.  History.    2.  Tragedy. 

Story  of  the  execution  of  Lady  Jane  Grey. 


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322.  Jack  Sheppard  (1845),  I.   106.     1.  Crime.     2.  Melodrama.     3.  His- 

tory.    Romantic  version  of  the  career  of  a  noted  English  criminal. 

CHARLES    LEVER    (IRELAND.    1806-1872),    XIX.    291. 

323.  Charles    O'Maixey    (1841),    XI.    40L     1.  Adventure.     2.  History. 

3.  Character.  The  adventures  in  love  and  war  of  a  devil-may-care 
young  Irishman.  He  fights  under  Wellington  in  Spain,  and  in  the 
Waterloo  campaign,  where  he  is  brought  before  Napoleon  I.  as  a 
prisoner. 

324.  Tom  Burke  of  Ours  (1844),  XI.  411.     1.  Adventure.     2.  History. 

3.  Love.  The  adventures  of  an  Irish  soldier  in  the  French  army 
under  Napoleon  I.,  and  his  love  for  a  maid  of  honor  to  the  Empress 
Josephine. 

HENRY    COCKTON    (ENGLAND,    1807-1863),    XIX.    96. 

326.  Valentine  Vox,  the  Ventriloquist  (1840),  V.  7.     1.  Ventriloquism. 

2.  Humor.  3.  Rascality.  A  ventriloquist  creates  many  amusing 
situations  by  his  art.  He  wins  the  love  of  a  fine  girl  whose  putative 
father  turns  out  to  be  a  rascal,  shortly  after  which  her  real  father  is 
discovered.  The  rascal  has  lovable  traits,  and  the  delineation  of  his 
character  is  the  worthiest  feature  of  the  story. 

SAMUEL    WARREN    (ENGLAND,    1807-1877),    XIX.    421. 

326.  Ten  Thousand  a  Year  (1841),  XVII.  198.     1.  Law.    2.  Character. 

3.  Crime.  A  mean-spirited  shop-clerk  inherits  a  great  fortune  and 
makes  himself  ridiculous  in  dissipating  it.  A  legal  sharper  gets  hold 
of  him  and  robs  him.  It  is  found  that  there  is  a  flaw  in  the  inheritance, 
and,  after  a  suit  at  law,  the  rightful  owners  come  into  possession; 
whereupon  the  sharper  commits  suicide  and  the  false  heir  dies  of  de- 
bauchery in  a  debtors'  prison. 

(HERE  MAT  FOLLOW  166.) 
(HERE  MAY  FOLLOW  176.) 
ELIZABETH    GASKELL  (ENGLAND,    1810-1866),    XIX.    199. 

327.  Cranford  (1853),  IX.  96.     1.  Village  Life.     2.  Character.     3.  Humor. 

A  novel  of  EngHsh  village  life,  with  special  study  of  feminine  charac- 
teristics. There  is  an  affecting  romance  of  an  old  maid  saved  from 
poverty  by  the  return  of  a  lost  brother,  and  a  partially  humorous,  partly 
pathetic  tale  of  a  traveling  conjurer. 

WILLIAM    M.    THACKERAY    (ENGLAND,    1811-1863,)    XIX.  401. 

328.  Catherine  (1840),  XVI.  293.     1.  Crime.     2.  Satire.    Based  on  the 

burning  of  a  woman  for  the  revolting  murder  of  her  husband  in  1726. 
A  reaUstic  story  of  vice  and  crime,  written  to  satirize  a  contemporary 
habit  among  novelists  of  investing  these  subjects  with  romance. 
829.  Barry  Lyndon  (1844),  XVI.  304.  1.  Rascality.  2.  Adventure. 
3.  Gambling.  4.  Satire.  The  career  of  a  despicable  Irish  adventurer 
and  card-sharper  in  Dublin,  London,  and  European  courts.     He  mar- 


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ries  an  heiress  and  ruins  her  life.  The  story  was  written  in  burlesque 
of  Bulwer-Lytton's  "Pelham,"  which  is  a  romantic  treatment  of  the 
same  sort  of  a  man. 

330.  Pendennis    (1848),    XVI.    316.     1.  Character.     2.  Youth.     3.  Love. 

The  career  of  a  thoughtless,  spoiled  young  man,  who  involves  himself 
in  debts,  scrapes  with  actresses,  etc.,  from  which  his  mother  rescues 
him  at  great  sacrifice,  and  through  all  of  which  a  girl  who  loves  him 
patiently  awaits  his  coming  to  a  realization  of  the  true  meaning  of  life. 

331.  Vanity  Fair  (1848),  XVI.    332.    1.  Rascality.    2.  Character.     3.  liis- 

tory.  The  career  of  an  adventuress  among  English  aristocracy.  The 
delineation  of  character  is  the  chief  featiu-e  of  the  story.  The  battle 
of  Waterloo  is  its  central  event. 

332.  Henhy     Esmond     (1852),     XVI.     346.     1.  History.     2.  Character. 

3.  Love.  A  romance  of  the  days  of  the  Pretender  James.  The 
hero  is  a  legitimate  son  of  a  gentleman  by  a  low-bom  wife,  whom  he 
allows  to  be  thought  illegitimate.  He  is  taken  into  the  household  of 
his  uncle,  where  he  becomes  devoted  to  the  wife  and  daughter.  The 
latter  is  a  coquette,  and,  as  the  years  pass,  leads  him  a  pretty  dance. 
The  former  is  a  noble  woman,  and  sides  with  him  against  her  daughter. 
Finally,  on  her  becoming  a  widow,  and  his  breaking  the  daughter's 
spell,  they  marry,  and  settle  in  Virginia. 

333.  The  Newcomes  (1855),  XVI.  359.     1.  Paternal  Love.     2.  Character. 

3.  Youth.  4.  Banking.  An  Indian  oflBcer  devotes  himself  to  his 
motherless  boy,  standing  by  him  in  his  foohsh  expenditures,  his  love 
troubles,  etc.  To  gain  money  for  him  he  enters  into  speculation,  and  is 
ruined  by  the  failure  of  his  bank.  He  sacrifices  everything  to  his 
creditors  and  dies  a  noble  type  of  gentleman  and  father. 

334.  A  Shabby-Genteel  Story  (1857),  XVI.  370.     1.  Character.     2.  Com- 

edy. The  love  affairs,  social  intrigues,  etc.,  of  various  types  of  character 
in  a  boarding  house. 
336.  The  Virginians  (1859),  XVI.  379.  1.  History.  2.  Character. 
3.  Brotherly  Love.  A  sequel  to  "  Henry  Esmond  "  (332).  Esmond's 
two  grandsons  return  to  England,  where  one  enters  the  army.  He  is 
a  spendthrift,  and  his  brother  pays  his  debts,  involving  himself  in  trouble. 
The  American  Revolution  breaks  out,  and  they  take  opposite  sides, 
but  remain  good  friends.  Generals  Wolfe  and  Washington  appear 
in  the  story. 

336.  LovEL  THE  Widower  (1860),  XVI.  390.     1.  Character.     2.  Comedy. 

A  stage  dancer  becomes  governess  of  a  widower's  children.  She  at- 
tracts a  number  of  men,  and  so  when  her  former  career  is  revealed 
there  is  instant  demmciation  from  their  women  of  the  circle,  which  is 
stilled  by  the  widower  marrying  her. 

337.  The  Adventures  of  Philip  (1862),  X^T.  400.     1.  Family  Relations. 

2.  Character.  3.  Journalism.  A  doctoi  deceives  a  poor  girl  with  a 
mock  marriage,  and  elopes  with  a  rich  one.    His  son  by  the  second 


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woman  learns  of  these  facts,  and,  breaking  with  his  father,  strikes  out 
in  an  independent  career  as  a  journalist.  The  father  embezzles  the 
son's  inheritance,  but  the  young  man  bravely  endures  poverty,  and 
wins  the  love  of  a  young  girl,  and  finally,  inherits  wealth. 

CHARLES    DICKENS    (ENGLAND,    1812-1870),    XIX.    13fi. 

838.  Pickwick  Papers  (1837),  VI.  400.  1.  Humor.  2.  Character.  3.  Ad- 
venture. 4.  Law.  5.  Imprisonment.  A  humorous  tale  of  a  group 
of  eccentric  characters,  of  which  the  chief  are  the  titular  hero  and  his 
servant,  Sam  Weller,  who  is  remarkable  for  his  witticisms.  Mr. 
Pickwick  gets  into  awkward  situations  with  ladies  eligible  for  matri- 
mony, from  which  Sam  does  his  best  to  extricate  him.  However,  he 
loses  a  suit  against  him  for  breach  of  promise,  and  suffers  imprisonment 
rather  than  pay  damages,  and  is  released  by  paying  the  costs. 

339.  Oliver  Twist  (1838),  VI.  410.     1.  Youth.     2.  Poverty.     3.  Crime. 

4.  Tragedy.  A  foundling  passes  from  the  workhouse  into  appren- 
ticeship, and  escapes  from  ill  treatment  to  be  taken  up  by  thieves. 
He  is  rescued  by  a  gentleman,  retaken  by  the  thieves,  and  by  the  aid 
of  a  woman  escapes  again  with  clues  which  reveal  his  parentage.  The 
woman  is  murdered  by  her  lover,  who  kills  himself  by  accident  in  at- 
tempting to  escape  from  the  police.  The  hero  is  adopted  by  the 
gentleman  who  first  rescued  him. 

340.  Nicholas    Nickleby    (1839),     VI.     420.     1.  Education.     2.  Youth. 

3.  Rascality.  4.  Character.  5.  Adventure.  A  cruel  money-lender 
gets  rid  of  his  dead  brother's  son  by  securing  him  a  place  as  teacher  in 
a  private  school,  where  unfortunate  children  are  "taken  in  and  done 
for"  for  the  money  their  heartless  parents  supply  to  have  them  out 
of  sight.  He  beats  the  wicked  schoolmaster,  and  runs  away  with  a 
simple-minded  waif,  and  after  various  adventures  returns  home  to 
find  his  sister  made  the  prize  of  the  uncle's  dealings  with  scoundrels. 
The  uncle's  designs  are  frustrated;  the  simpleton  is  revealed  as  his  son, 
and  he  hangs  himself. 

341.  The  Old  Curiosity  Shop  (1840),  VII.  1.     1.  Youth.     2.  Rascality. 

3.  Character.  4.  Adventure.  5.  Pathos.  6.  Gambling.  An  old 
gambler  and  his  granddaughter  escape  from  the  toils  of  a  villain- 
ous xisurer  by  flight.  The  usurer  hunts  for  them  as  well  as  the 
gambler's  brother,  who  wishes  to  aid  them.  The  fugitives  have  many 
adventures  with  eccentric  people.  The  usurer  is  foiled,  and  is  acci- 
dentally drowned,  and  the  brother  finds  the  gambler  with  brain  dis- 
tracted by  the  death  of  the  grandchild. 

342.  Barnaby    Rudge    (1841),    VII.    11.     1.  History.     2.  Crime    and    its 

Detection.  3.  Character.  4.  The  Raven.  A  story  deahng  with 
the  "No  Popery"  riots  of  1780.  The  mysterious  perpetrator  of  an 
old  murder  is  discovered,  proving  to  be  the  father  of  the  hero,  a  half- 
witted boy,  who  has  an  impish  raven  as  a  pet.  A  character  study  of 
Lord  Chesterfield  is  made  in  the  person  of  one  of  the  characters. 


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343.  Martin  Chuzzlewit  (1844),  VII.  22.     I.  Character.    2.  Rascality. 

3.  Crime.  4.  Love.  5.  Humor.  A  rich  old  man  believes  his  rela- 
tives are  all  hypocrites.  His  grandson  makes  love  to  his  ward,  which 
leads  to  a  quarrel  between  him  and  the  old  man.  The  grandson  is 
taken  up  by  a  rascally  cousin,  who  cuts  him  adrift  when  he  learns  of 
his  quarrel  with  the  grandfather.  The  young  man  goes  to  America 
and  the  rascal  makes  love  to  the  ward.  The  young  man,  taught  humility 
by  misfortune,  returns  to  ask  his  grandfather's  forgiveness.  The 
rascal  attempts  to  foil  this  purpose,  but  is  unmasked  by  the  grands 
father,  A  would-be  parricide  is  arrested,  and  commits  suicide.  Other 
rascals  in  the  family  are  exposed.  Eccentric  humorous  characters 
are  introduced. 

344.  DOMBEY  AND  SoN  (1846),  VII.  33.     1.  Youth.     2.  Pathos.     3.  Love. 

4.  Business.  5.  Rascality.  A  merchant,  engrossed  in  business,  is 
left  with  a  motherless  boy  and  girl.  The  boy  dies  a  victim  to  his  father's 
ambition  to  force  him  ahead.  The  father  marries  an  adventuress, 
who  is  redeemed  by  love  for  her  step-daughter.  Both  are  abused 
by  the  merchant,  and,  to  get  away,  the  wife  elopes  with  a  rascally 
manager,  and  the  daughter  marries  a  poor  man.  The  merchant  finds 
himself  ruined  by  the  absconding  manager,,  and  is  about  to  kill  himself 
when  his  daughter  returns  to  care  for  him. 

346.  David  Copperfield  (1849),  VII.  44.     1.  Character.     2.  Melodrama.. 

3.  Love.  4.  Auto-biography.  The  author's  own  career  in  school, 
and  as  stenographer  and  author,  is  set  forth  in  the  experiences  of  the 
hero,  around  whom  are  grouped  a  world  of  lifelike  characters.  He 
wins  and  loses  by  death  a  "child-wife,"  and  is  comforted  by  a  woman 
who  had  loved  him  all  the  while,  and  who  proves  to  be  his  soul  mate. 
The  chief  plot,  however,  relates  to  the  seduction  of  a  fisher  girl  by  an 
aristocratic  youth,  and  the  resultant  tragedy. 

346.  Bleak  House  (1853),  VII.   54.     1.  Law.    2.  Character.    3.  Satire. 

4.  Youth.  5.  Melodrama.  An  indictment  of  the  law's  delay,  show- 
ing the  tragedies  it  produces,  especially  on  young  lives.  There  is  inci- 
dental satire  of  foreign  missions.  Certain  characters  have  been 
identified  with  contemporaries  of  the  author:  Landor,  Leigh  Hunt, 
et  al.  There  is  a  melodramatic  sub-plot  in  which  one  of  the  actors  isi 
modeled  on  a  real  murderess. 

347.  Hard    Times    (1854),    VII.    65.     1.  Labor.    2.  Politics.    3.  Crime. 

4.  Pathos.  A  rich  man,  a  member  of  Parliament,  has  no  place  for 
idealism  or  love  in  his  philosophy.  As  a  result,  his  son  turns  out  to 
be  a  thief,  and  his  daughter  a  loveless  wife,  fleeing  to  him  to  escape 
forbidden  love.  Central  heroic  figures  are  a  mechanic  oppressed  by 
employers  on  one  side  and  the  trades  unions  on  the  other,  and  the 
woman  who  loves  him  but  cannot  marry  him  because  of  their  poverty. 

348.  Little  DoRRiT  (1857),  VII.  74.     1.  Law.     2.  Rascality.    3.  Insanity. 

4.  Love.    An  indictment  of  red  tape  in  public  business,  and  of  impris- 


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onment  for  debt.  An  old  prisoner  for  debt  is  left  a  fortune.  His  family 
are  surrounded  by  rogues  and  hypocrites,  and  lose  their  money,  the  father 
becoming  an  imbecile.  The  daughter,  the  heroine,  is,  however,  united 
to  her  true  love. 

349.  A  Tale  of  Two  Cities  (1860),   VII.   84.     1.  History.     2.  Drama. 

3.  Description.  A  dramatic  romance  founded  on  the  French  Revolu- 
tion. The  fall  of  the  Bastile  is  described.  The  hero,  a  dissolute  man, 
loves  a  woman  who  is  in  love  with  another,  and  he  takes  the  place  of 
the  favored  one  when  he  is  condemned  to  the  guillotine. 

350.  Great    Expectations    (1860),    VII.    94.     1.  Youth.     2.  Character. 

3.  Crime.  4.  Insanity.  5.  Love.  A  boy  feeds  an  escaping  convict. 
Later,  he  is  chosen  by  an  eccentric  woman  to  be  a  playmate  for  her 
adopted  daughter.  Still  later  he  is  told  that  a  fortune  has  been  placed 
in  trust  for  him.  He  thinks  it  is  from  the  lady  who  has  chosen  him 
to  marry  her  daughter,  but  the  girl  rebukes  his  presumption.  He 
discovers  his  benefactor  is  the  convict,  who  is  shortly  afterward  arrested, 
and,  dying  of  his  wounds,  is  bereft  by  the  state  of  his  wealth.  The  hero 
rescues  the  old  lady  from  her  burning  house  and  she  repents  that  she 
misled  him  to  love  her  daughter.  But  the  girl's  heart  turns  to  him  at 
last  and  they  are  united. 

361.  Our  Mutual   Friend   (1865),   VII.    104.     1.  Avarice.    2.  Comedy. 

3.  Crime  and  its  Detection.  4.  Love.  A  girl  who  has  repulsed  a  lover 
because  he  is  poor,  is  taught  a  lesson  by  her  guardian,  who  pretends 
to  be  avaricious,  and  mistreats  the  poor  lover,  thus  causing  the  girl 
to  come  to  his  defence.  The  young  man  proves  to  be  the  heir  to  a 
fortune  the  desire  for  which  has  tempted  others  to  crime. 

362.  The  Mystery  of  Edvi'in  Drood  (1870),  VII.  114.     1.  Crime  and  its 

Detection.  2.  Opium  Habit.  Two  young  men  are  rivals  in  love. 
One  disappears,  and  a  third  young  man,  an  opium-eater,  tries  to  force 
the  girl  to  marry  him  by  threatening  to  fix  the  murder  of  the  absent 
on  the  present  lover.  A  man  of  unknown  antecedents  enters  the  story 
evidently  as  a  detective.     Here  the  MS.  ends. 

CHARLES  REASE  (ENGLAND,  1814-1884).  XIX.    349. 

363.  Peg  Woffington  (1840),  XIII.  340.     1.  History.     2.  The  Theatre. 

A  romance  of  the  stage  in  which  the  famous  actress,  Margaret  Woffing- 
ton, uses  her  histrionic  ability  to  help  a  poor  artist  by  putting  her  head 
in  a  frame,  and  confounding  the  critics  of  the  supposed  portrait  who 
declare  it  a  bad  one,  by  jeering  at  them  at  the  close  of  their  remarks. 
After  they  are  gone,  the  wife  of  the  actress's  lover  appears  and  pleads 
with  the  supposed  portrait  to  give  him  back  to  her.  The  actress  is 
moved  by  the  plea  and  brings  about  a  reconciliation  of  husband  and  wife. 
354.  Christie  Johnstone  (1855),  XIII.  349.  1.  Heroism.  2.  Love, 
3.  Fishing.  4.  Art.  A  Scotch  fisher  lass  and  an  artist  form  a  com- 
radeship that  leads  to  love.    The  artist's  mother  objects  to  his  sweet- 


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heart's  low  condition,  and  the  proud  girl  breaks  the  engagement.  The 
girl  saves  the  artist  from  drowning  and  the  mother  begs  her  forgiveness. 
It  transpires  that  the  mother  had  been  a  cook,  and  was  the  wife  of  a  green 
grocer. 

366,  It  IS  Never  TOO  Late  TO  Mend  (1856),  XIII.  356.  1.  Prison  Reform. 
2.  Mining.  3.  Australian  Life.  4.  Crime  and  its  Discovery.  A 
man,  condemned  for  theft,  suffers  great  hardships  in  prison,  which  the 
chaplain  tries  to  mitigate,  and  is  transported  to  Australia,  where  he 
chums  with  an  English  farmer.  They  discover  gold.  They  return 
rich  to  England,  where  it  is  found  that  the  real  thief  is  the  villain  who 
has  separated  the  farmer  and  his  sweetheart,  his  exposer  being  a  Jew 
whom  he  had  robbed  and  cursed. 

356.  White   Lies    (1857),    XIII.    364.     1.   Ethics.     2.    Self-sacrifice.     A 

French  girl  obeys  her  mother  and  sends  her  lover  away  to  the  wars  and 
marries  a  man  she  respects  but  does  not  love.  Her  husband  goes  to 
the  wars  also,  and  is  reported  dead.  The  lover  retvirns  and  marries 
the  girl.  Then  she  learns  that  her  first  husband  is  not  dead  and  she 
dismisses  the  lover.  The  husband  returns,  and  finding  a  child  of  an 
age  to  indicate  his  wife's  infidelity,  is  about  to  kill  her,  when  her  sister 
claims  the  child  as  hers,  even  at  the  cost  of  losing  her  own  lover.  The 
husband  sends  the  seeming  betrayer  into  a  desperate  charge,  in  which 
he  is  reported  killed.  Then  the  wife  confesses  the  truth,  whereupon 
the  first  husband  renounces  his  claim  in  favor  of  the  dead  man.  But 
this  one  was  not  killed,  and  returns  to  claim  her  as  his  wife,  the  first 
husband  remaining  as  the  friend  of  both,  and  the  sister  becoming 
reconciled  to  her  lover. 

357.  Love  Me  Little,  Love  Me  Long  (1859),  XIII.  374.     1.  Love.    Two 

guardians  of  an  heiress  select  different  husbands  for  her,  but  she 
chooses  a  ship's  mate  for  herself,  and,  amid  the  contest  of  the  guardians, 
sUps  away  and  marries  him. 

358.  The  Cloister  and  the  Hearth  (1861),  XIII.  381.     1.  Adventure. 

2.  Love.  3.  Travel.  A  mediaeval  romance  of  the  parents  of  Eras- 
mus, in  which  the  hero,  separated  by  guile  from  his  betrothed,  travels 
from  Holland  to  Italy,  meeting  many  adventures  and  becoming  a 
monk.  He  returns  to  find  himself  a  father,  to  confute  the  enemies  of 
himself  and  betrothed,  and  to  Uve  in  friendship  with  her,  both  engaged 
in  holy  works. 

359.  Hard    Cash    (1863),    XIII.    400.     1.  Insanity.     2.  Law.     3.  Crime. 

The  sequel  of  "Love  Me  Little,  Love  Me  Long"  (357).  A  rascally 
banker  shuts  up  his  son  in  a  private  insane  asylum  to  prevent  him 
disclosing  the  father's  embezzlement  of  the  funds  of  the  father  of  the  girl 
that  the  son  is  about  to  marry.  There  he  meets  the  man  who  has  been 
robbed,  a  sea-captain,  and  escapes  with  him.  The  captain  is  mad,  but 
recovers  his  reason,  the  yoimg  man  brings  his  father  to  terms,  and 
all  ends  happily. 


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360.  Griffith  Gaunt  (1866),  XIII.  407.     1.  Jealousy.     2.  Medicine.     An 

insanely  jealous  husband  suspects  his  wife's  relations  with  a  priest  and 
assaults  him.  Whereupon  he  flees  and  marries  a  farmer's  daughter. 
His  true  wife  proves  her  innocence,  and  he  returns,  leading  a  double 
life.  This,  the  second  wife  discovers.  The  man  disappears  and 
his  first  wife  is  accused  of  his  murder.  He  returns  and  exonerates 
her.  She  falls  sick  and  he  saves  her  by  transfusion  of  blood,  hearing 
of  which  she  forgives  him.  A  former  suitor  of  the  wife  marries  the 
second  wife  of  the  jealous  man. 

361.  FoxJL  Play   (1868),  XIII.   418.     I.  Crime.     2.  Love.     3.  Insurance. 

A  young  merchant  commits  forgery,  and  fastens  the  crime  on  a  friend, 
who  is  transported  to  Australia.  As  a  ticket-of-leave  man,  he  becomes 
gardener  to  the  betrothed  of  his  enemy  and  comes  to  love  her.  He 
takes  the  same  ship  with  her  for  England.  Ignorant  that  it  bears  his 
betrothed,  the  merchant  wrecks  it  for  insurance.  The  convict  saves 
the  girl,  and  they  live  together  on  a  desolate  island.  He  contrives  their 
rescue,  and,  on  their  return  to  England,  exposes  the  forger  and  murderer, 
and  marries  the  girl. 

362.  Put  Yoitrself  in  His  Place  (1870),  XIII.  426.     1.  Labor.    2.  In- 

vention. 3.  Love.  4.  Crime.  An  ingenious  yoimg  mechanic  is 
fought  by  the  trades  unions  because  of  his  inventions,  and  is  under- 
mined in  love  by  a  villainous  rival,  but  overcomes  both  of  these  enemies. 

363.  A  Terrible  Temptation  (1871),  XIII.     437.     1.  Ethics.     To  outwit 

an  enemy  a  wife  descends  to  deceit,  and  palms  off  as  her  son  one  who 
is  not  the  child  of  her  husband.  Whether  or  not  she  has  been  faithful 
to  her  husband,  or  is  justified  in  her  deceit,  are  the  problems  of  the 
story. 

364.  A  Simpleton  (1873),  XIII.  447.     1.  Medicine.     2.  Mining.     3.  Mar- 

riage. 4.  Crime.  A  struggling  physician  marries  a  spoiled  girl,  and 
is  forced  to  give  up  practice  because  of  her  extravagance.  He  goes  to 
South  Africa  and  is  reported  dead.  He  discovers  diamonds,  and  sends 
his  partner  back  to  the  settlements  with  gems  to  sell,  and  with  word  for 
his  wife.  The  partner  is  a  rascal  and  goes  to  England,  where,  with 
the  backing  of  his  father  he  woos  the  supposed  widow.  The  husband 
returns  just  in  time  to  stop  their  marriage  and  is  reconciled  to  his  wife. 

365.  A  Woman-Hater  (1878),  XIII.  456.     1.  Woman's  Rights.     2.  Medi- 

cine. 3.  Music.  4.  Love.  5.  Gambling.  A  prima  donna  is  the 
secret  wife  of  a  blackleg,  who  is  courting  another  woman.  But  he  hears 
that  his  wife  has  won  a  fortune  at  the  gaming  table,  and  so  plays  fast 
and  loose  with  both  women.  Now  the  brother  of  the  second  woman, 
though  a  professed  woman-hater,  comes  to  love  the  singer  through  their 
common  devotion  to  music.  She  reveals  to  him  her  husband's  rascality 
and  they  save  the  sister  from  him,  with  the  aid  also  of  a  woman  who 
has  struggled  against  heavy  odds  to  establish  herself  as  a  physician. 


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MRS.    HENRT    WOOD    (ENGLAND.    1814-1887),    XIX.    425. 

366.  EastLynne  (1861),  XVII.  259.     1.  Melodrama.     2.  Pathos.     A  wife, 

by  her  folly,  runs  away  from  her  husband  and  little  children.  For 
love  of  the  child  she  returns  in  disguise  and  takes  service  in  her  hus- 
band's house.  After  years  of  agonizing  love,  she  dies,  her  secret  being 
disclosed  while  she  is  on  her  death-bed,  and  her  husband  forgiving  her. 

ANTHONY    TROIXOPE    (ENGLAND,    1815-1888),    XIX.    407. 

367.  The    Warden    (1855),    XVII.    1.     1.  The    Clergy.     2.  Reform.    A 

clergyman  comes  into  a  sinecure  at  the  expense  of  the  recipients  of  a 
charity.  A  suitor  for  his  daughter  is  one  of  the  reformers  who  attack 
him,  with  a  resultant  complication  of  the  love  affair.  In  the  end  the 
clergyman  resigns  his  sinecure  and  the  lovers  are  married.  Thomas 
Carlyle  is  the  original  of  one  of  the  characters. 

368.  Barchester  Towers  (1857),  XVII.  9.     1.  The  Clergy.     A  sequel  to 

"The  Warden."  The  story  relates  to  complications  in  love  matters 
arising  from  strife  about  church  preferment. 

369.  Orley   Farm    (1861),    XVII.    20.     1.  Farming.     2.  Crime.     3.  Law. 

A  widow  commits  forgery  of  a  deed  to  retain  a  farm  for  her  son.  She 
confesses  the  crime  to  her  lover  and  son  who  stand  by  her.  She  is 
acquitted  and  the  farm  is  then  given  to  the  rightful  owner.  The  son's 
mercenary  sweetheart  then  jilts  him,  and  the  mother  refuses  to  marry 
her  suitor. 

370.  Can  You  Forgive  Her?  (1864),  XVII.     32.     1.  Politics.     2.  Charac- 

ter. An  heiress  has  two  suitors,  one  vrith  moral  imperfections  and 
winning  ways,  the  other  too  good  to  be  attractive.  She  becomes  en- 
gaged now  to  one,  now  to  the  other.  The  weak  man,  who  has  political 
aspirations,  uses  her  money  to  aid  his  ambition,  and,  as  a  result,  is 
opposed  by  his  rival  and  defeated  in  the  end. 

371.  The    Small    House    at    Allington    (1864),   XVII.   42.     1.    Love. 

2.  Pathos.  The  complicated  love  affairs  of  two  sisters,  ending  happily 
for  one  and  sadly  for  the  other. 

372.  He  Knew  He  was  Right  (1869),  XVIL  52.     1.  Psychology.    2.  Pathos. 

The  tragedy  of  a  husband  and  wife,  resulting  from  the  latter's  folly 
and  the  former's  conviction  that  he  can  never  be  mistaken,  and  his 
almost  insane  insistence  on  having  his  ovni  way. 

CHARLOTTE    BRONTE    [CURRER    BELL]    (ENGLAND,  1816-1855), 

XIX.    65. 

373.  Jane  Eyre  (1817),  III.  230.     1.  Character.     2.  Melodrama.     3.  In- 

sanity. 4.  Love.  A  governess  is  about  to  wed  a  man  when  she  discov- 
ers that  he  has  a  maniac  vrife.  Although  she  appreciates  the  misery 
of  his  position  and  his  need  of  her,  she  remains  true  to  principle,  and 
declines  to  marry  him,  and  convinces  him  of  his  duty  toward  his  wife. 
The  maniac  sets  fire  to  the  house  and  her  husband  is  crushed  and 
Minded  in  a  vain  attempt  to  rescue  her.    Then  the  governess  marries 


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him.  The  depiction  of  the  powerful  passionate  character  of  the  hus- 
band is  the  striking  feature  of  the  novel. 

374.  Shirley    (1849),    III.    241.     1.  Renunciation.     2.  Love.     3.  Labor. 

4.  Business.  A  poor  girl  in  love  with  a  mill-owner,  ruined  by  the 
American  embargo  and  the  resultant  labor  difficulties,  resigns  him  to 
a  wealthy  girl.  This  one,  however,  learns  to  love  a  teacher  whom 
she  had  at  first  looked  down  upon,  and  the  mill-owner,  ashamed  of  his 
mercenary  motives,  returns  to  his  first  love. 

375.  ViLLETTE   (1853),   III.    252.     1.  Education.     2.  Love.     3.  Character. 

A  semi-autobiographical  story  of  an  English  girl's  experience  in  a 
Belgian  school,  and  her  love  for  a  fellow  instructor,  a  Belgian  of  marked 
individuality. 

376.  The  Professor  (1857),  III.  263.     1.  Education.     2.  Love.     3.  Char- 

acter. The  story  of  an  Englishman,  teaching  in  Belgium,  and  his  love 
for  one  of  his  pupils.  Delineation  of  types  of  character  among  the  hero's 
fellow  teachers  is  the  special  feature  of  the  novel. 

grace:    AGUIL.AR    (ENGLAND,    1816-1847).    XIX.    4. 

377.  Home  Influence  (IS-*?),  I.  45.     1.  Youth.     2.  Education.     3.  Home 

Life.  4.  Pathos.  An  orphan  girl,  adopted  by  a  good  aunt,  lays  her- 
self under  evil  imputations  to  save  her  wayward  brother  from  disgrace. 

378.  The  Mother's  Recompense  (1850),  I.  57.     1.  Education.    2.  Home 

Life.  3.  Love.  A  sequel  to  "Home  Influence."  A  mother's  in- 
fluence solves  the  love  complications  of  her  children,  especially  of  a 
wayward  daughter. 

CEU.RL.£S    WnXIAM    SHIRLEY    BROOKS    (ENGLAND,    1816- 
1874),    XIX.    67. 

379.  The    Gordian    Knot    (1868),    III.    285.     1.  Marriage.     2.  Ethics. 

A  husband  and  his  wife  are  estranged  by  the  ghost  of  his  evil  past 
rising  between  them,  the  appearance  of  her  scapegrace  father  on  the 
scene,  and  the  machinations  of  a  defeated  suitor  for  her  hand.  The 
wife  nurses  the  former  mistress  of  her  husband,  and  beside  the  dying 
bed  of  the  penitent  outcast  is  united  again  to  her  husband. 

EMILT    BRONTE    [ELLIS    BELL]    (ENGLAND,    1818-1849),  XIX.  65. 

380.  Wuthering     Heights     (1847),     III.     273.     1.  Psychic    Phenomena. 

2.  Character.  The  story  of  a  strange  affinity  between  a  neglected 
adopted  boy  and  a  bright  girl,  repeated  after  their  death  in  the  son  of 
the  boy's  persecutor  and  the  girl's  daughter.  The  ghost  of  the  mother 
haunts  the  house  of  the  man  to  whom  she  was  spiritually  boxmd. 

CHARLES    KINGSLEY    (ENGLAND,    1819-1875),    XIX.    282. 

881.  Alton  Locke  (1850),  XI.  222.  1.  Labor.  2.  Authorship.  The 
life  story  of  a  poor  poet  who  took  up  the  side  of  the  workingmen  in  the 
Chartist  agitation,  and  suffered  imprisonment,  dying  in  jail. 


58       ANALYSIS   OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES 

382.  HypATiA  (1853),  XI.   233.     1.  History.     2.  Philosophy.     3.  Religion. 

4.  Tragedy.  5.  Psychology.  A  romance  based  on  the  conflict  in 
Egypt  of  Christian  asceticism  with  Neo-Platonism,  of  which  the  heroine 
is  the  chief  expounder.  She  is  torn  to  pieces  by  a  mob.  Racial  charac- 
teristics are  clearly  differentiated,  Jews,  Greeks,  Romans,  and  even 
Goths  being  portrayed  in  typical  representations. 

383.  Westward  Ho!  (1855),  XI.  244.     1.  Adventure.     2.  History.    3.  He- 

roism. A  tale  of  adventures  of  Enghshmen  at  sea,  and  in  South 
America,  during  the  reign  of  Elizabeth.  The  defeat  of  the  Spanish 
Armada  forms  the  cUmax.  Sir  Richard  Grenville,  Sir  Humphrey 
Gilbert,  Sir  John  Hawkins,  and  other  great  captains  appear  in  the 
story. 

384.  Two  Years  Ago  (1857),  XI.  2G5.     I.Love.     2.  History.     3.  Heroism. 

4.  Slavery.  The  hero,  an  Englishman,  helps  a  beautiful  slave  girl  in 
Louisiana  to  escape;  he  is  wrecked  on  the  coast  of  England,  and  robbed 
of  his  money.  Suspicion  of  the  theft  falls  on  the  schoolmistress  who 
rescues  him.  She  discovers  that  her  mother  is  the  thief,  and,  taking 
the  belt  of  money,  follows  vainly  after  the  Englishman,  who  has  gone 
to  the  Crimean  War.  They  meet  in  his  father's  home,  where  the  story 
ends  with  their  marriage. 

386.  The  Water-Babies  (1863),  XL  276.  1.  Youth.  2.  Imagination. 
3.  Natural  History.  A  little  chimney-sweep  falls  into  a  stream,  and 
finds  himself  changed  into  a  tiny  water-baby.  Here  he  learns  the 
habits  of  water-animals,  and  moral  lessons  about  behavior  to  one's 
fellows. 

386.  Hereward  the  Wake  (1866),  XL  255.     1.  History.     2.  Adventure. 

3.  Heroism.  A  tale  of  the  "Last  of  the  EngUsh,"  who  heroically 
resisted  the  Normans  under  William  the  Conqueror,  after  the  defeat 
of  King  Harold  at  Hastings.     Lady  Godiva  is  the  hero's  mother. 

GEORGE    EUOT    [MARY    ANN  EVANS    CROSS]    (ENGLAND, 

1819-1880),    XIX.    170. 

387.  Adam  Bede  (1859),  VIII.  182.     1.  Seduction.     2.  Infanticide.     3.  Re- 

ligion. A  mechanic  is  betrothed  to  a  hght -minded  girl,  who  is  seduced 
by  a  young  gentleman.  She  kills  the  child,  and  is  about  to  be  hanged 
for  it,  when  her  seducer  secures  a  reprieve  for  her.  The  mechanic 
marries  an  evangelist,  who  had  befriended  her. 

388.  The  Mill  ON  the  Floss  (1860),  vm.  191.     1.  Family  Life.    2.  Youth. 

3.  Tragedy.  A  stem  brother  and  brilliant  sister  are  devoted  to  each 
other.  She  loves  the  son  of  the  man  who  has  ruined  her  father,  and 
the  brother  forbids  their  meeting.  The  betrothed  of  a  girl  friend 
entraps  the  sister  into  a  compromising  situation  with  himself,  and 
she  is  harshly  treated  therefor  by  her  brother.  But  brother  and  sister 
are  united  in  death  by  flood. 


ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES       59 

389.  Silas    Marner    (1861),    VIII.      201.       1.  Avarice.      2.  Parenthood. 

3.  Labor.  An  avaricious  weaver  is  robbed  of  his  hoard.  In  its  place 
he  finds  a  child,  whom  he  adopts.  Sixteen  years  later  the  money  is 
recovered  and  the  rich  father  of  the  foundling  appears,  to  take  her 
away.  But  she  is  betrothed  to  a  workingman,  and  refuses  to  change 
her  lot. 

390.  ROMOLA    (1863),    VIII.    212.     1.  History.     2.  Character.     3.  Crime. 

4.  Religion.  5.  Tragedy.  A  romance  connected  with  the  tragic 
death  of  Savonarola,  the  religious  reformer  of  Florence.  The  heroine 
is  married  to  a  bigamist  who  is  also  a  thief  and  in  intention  a  parricide. 
Inspired  by  the  teaching  and  example  of  Savonarola,  upon  the  death 
of  her  husband  and  the  exposure  of  his  crimes,  she  does  not  shirk  her 
duty,  but  cares  for  his  other  wife  and  their  children. 

391.  Felix  Holt,  the  Radical  (1866),  VIII.  223.     1.  Politics.     2.  Social 

Reform.  3.  Labor.  4.  Love.  The  hero  is  a  social  reformer,  who, 
by  force  of  circumstances  becomes  a  leader  in  a  labor  riot.  The 
heroine  exonerates  him  and  refuses  wealth  to  put  herself  on  his  plane, 
whereupon  they  marry  and  continue  their  reform  work  together. 

392.  MiDDLEMARCH      (1872),      VIII.      234.     1.  Marriage.     2.  Character. 

3.  Love.  4.  Crime.  An  elderly,  Jealous  husband,  dying,  wills  his 
wife  his  property  on  condition  that  she  does  not  marry  a  certain  young 
man  who  is  her  admirer.  A  relative  of  the  admirer  is  discovered,  to 
be  a  criminal,  whereupon  the  heroine  marries  the  young  man  in  order 
to  share  the  odiimi  of  the  disgrace,  and  her  private  fortune  with  him. 
The  study  of  the  jealous  husband's  character  is  the  distinctive  feature 
of  the  novel. 

393.  Daniel    Deronda    (1876),    VIII.    245.     1.  Zionism.     2.  Search    for 

Lost  Relatives.  3.  Jewish  Life  and  Character.  4.  Religion.  A 
young  English  gentleman,  in  searching  for  the  relatives  of  a  Jewess 
he  has  rescued  from  suicide,  discovers  he  himself  is  a  Jew.  He  there- 
upon enters  the  Zionist  movement  with  the  Jewess's  brother,  who  is  an 
enthusiast  in  it,  and,  the  brother  dying,  and  the  father  proving  a  rascal, 
betroths  the  Jewess. 

MRS.  JAMES  SADLIER  (IRELAND,  1830-1003),  XIX.    350. 

394.  Bessie    Conway    (1861),    XIV.  154.     1.  Irish    Life    and    Character. 

2.  Ethics.  3.  Religion.  A  wild,  sacrilegious  yoimg  man  of  the  Irish 
gentry  is  in  love  with  a  peasant  girl  going  to  America  and  steals  on 
board  the  vessel.  She  is  protected  from  him  by  lads  of  her  own  class, 
and  after  several  years  returns  to  Ireland  to  aid  her  parents  with  her 
earnings.  She  finds  her  lover  there  repentant  of  his  sacrilege  and 
immorality,  and  she  forgives  him  and  marries  him. 

JEAN    INGELOW    (ENGLAND,    182O-1807),    XIX.    268. 

395.  Off  the  Skelligs  (1872),  XI.  36.     1.  Ethics.     2.  Love.     3.  Youth. 

4.  Sea-Life.     5.  Social  Reform.    The  heroine,  precocious  in  youth. 


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and  clever  and  self-supporting  in  womanhood,  is  beloved  by  a  man 
with  whom  she  is  yachting.  But  he  learns  that  his  young  step-brother 
is  in  love  with  her,  and  steps  aside,  to  her  wonder  and  dismay.  The 
step-brother,  however,  transfers  his  affections  elsewhere  and  all  ends 
happily.     The  heroine  aids  poor  people  to  help  themselves. 

ANNE    BRONTE    [ACTON    BEIX)    (ENGLAND,    1821-1840), 
XIX.    65. 

396.  Agnes  Grey  (1847),  III.  214.     1.  Love.     2.  Enghsh  Society.    3.  Char- 

acter. The  love  romance  of  a  governess  and  a  curate,  with  which  her 
eldest  pupil,  a  coquette,  attempts  to  interfere,  but  fails  to  do  so. 

397.  The  Tenant  of  Windfell  Hall  (1848),  III.  222.     1.  Character. 

2.  Mystery.  3.  Love.  A  woman,  apparently  a  widow,  of  whose 
antecedents  nothing  is  known,  comes  into  a  coimtry  district.  A  man 
of  the  neighborhood  is  in  close  touch  with  her.  Another  man  falls 
in  love  with  her,  and  wins  her  friendship  through  her  child,  proposes 
marriage,  but  is  refused.  Jealous  of  her  friend,  the  lover  assaults  him. 
Later  he  discovers  that  the  woman's  husband  is  alive,  but  is  a  brute, 
from  whom  her  brother,  the  apparent  friend,  has  separated  her.  The 
husband  drinks  himself  to  death,  whereupon  the  widow  marries  her 
lover. 

JAMES    GRANT    (SCOTLAND,    1832-1887),    XIX.    230. 

398.  BoTHWELL   (1851),   IX.   204.     1.  History.     2.  Tragedy.    A   romance 

of  the  assassination  of  Lord  Darnley,  husband  of  Mary,  Queen  of 
Scots. 

THOMAS    HUGHES    (ENGLAND,    1822-1896),    XIX.    264. 

399.  Tom  Brown's  School  Days  (1857),  X.  377.     1.  Youth.    2.  Sport. 

3.  Education.  4.  Ethics.  A  story  of  life  at  Rugby,  an  English  school 
directed  by  Dr.  Thomas  Arnold.  Moral  as  well  as  physical  courage  is 
portrayed  in  the  acts  of  the  chief  characters.  Football  and  other 
sports  are  described. 

MARMION    W.    SAVAGE    (IRELAND.    1823-1872),    XIX.    362. 

400.  The  Bachelor  OF  THE  Albany  (1847),  XIV.  224.    1.  Humor.    2.  Love. 

3.  Archery.  A  bachelor  desires  to  live  an  independent  life,  but  he  is 
put  under  obligations  to  a  fine  woman  who  saves  him  from  a  fire,  and 
beats  him  at  archery.     He  gallantly  proposes  marriage  and  is  accepted. 


CHARLOTTE  M,  TONGE  (ENGLAND,  1823-1901),  XIX.  427. 
401.  The  Heir  of  Redclyffe  (1853),  XVII.  282.  1.  Character.  2.  Eth- 
ics. A  prig  is  intolerant  of  his  cousin,  an  amiable  man  with  human 
frailties.  His  attitude  is  the  cause  of  the  cousin's  death,  and  his  acces- 
sion to  the  estate  of  which  the  cousin  was  the  heir.  Remorse  causes  him 
to  change  his  character,  and  he  becomes  humble  and  charitable. 


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ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES       6i 

WILLIAM    WILKIE    COLLINS    (ENGLAND,    1824-1880),    XIX.    97. 

402.  Antonina     (1852),    V.     13.     1.  History.     2.  Character.     3.  Religion. 

A  romance  of  the  time  of  Honorius,  Emperor  of  Rome.  The  contest 
of  the  Romans  and  Goths  and  that  of  Christianity  and  Paganism  supply 
the  incidents  and  the  contrasting  types  of  character.  Alaric,  the  Gothic 
King,  is  introduced  as  one  of  the  characters. 

403.  The  Woman  in  White  (1860),  V.  24.     1.  Crime  and  its  Detection. 

2.  Character.  3.  Love.  4.  Mistaken  Identity.  In  order  to  possess 
her  property,  a  villain,  preyed  upon  by  another  villain,  the  portrayal 
of  whose  character  is  the  chief  feature  of  the  book,  contrives  the  death 
of  his  wife's  double,  and  incarcerates  the  wife  in  her  place  in  a  mad- 
house. Her  sister  rescues  her  and  a  former  suitor  ferrets  out  the 
crime.  The  husband  is  burned  to  death  while  attempting  to  hide  a 
forgery,  and  his  accomplice  is  slain  by  a  member  of  a  political  brother- 
hood whose  cause  he  had  betrayed. 

404.  No  Name  (1862),  V.  58.     1.  Law  (Marriage).     2.  Crime  and  its  Detec- 

tion. 3.  Rascahty.  4.  Love.  Through  misadventure,  for  which  the 
law  does  not  have  a  remedy,  an  orphan  girl  is  left  illegitimate  and 
penniless.  Her  lover  repudiates  her.  She  becomes  an  adventuress, 
and  by  the  aid  of  a  precious  rascal,  marries  the  owner  of  the  property 
that  is  morally  though  not  legally  hers.  Her  husband's  housekeeper, 
a  shrewd  woman,  exposes  her  deception.  He  dies  and  she  is  again 
left  penniless.  She  is  redeemed  by  a  good  man's  love,  and  enriched 
by  the  discovery  of  a  secret  trust  fund  left  by  her  father. 

405.  Armadale  (1866),  V.  35.     1.  Crime.     2.  Mistaken  Identity.     3.  Char- 

acter. 4.  Tragedy.  A  woman  of  middle  age  makes  herself  appear 
young  by  aid  of  a  "beauty  doctor"  and  becomes  an  adventuress, 
committing  forgery,  theft,  and  even  murder,  to  advance  her  fortunes. 
She  marries  one  of  two  men  having  the  same  name,  intending  to  kill 
the  other  and  claim  his  property  as  his  vridow,  but  by  mistake  finds  she 
is  about  to  kill  her  husband,  whereupon  she  kills  herself. 

406.  The  Moonstone  (1868),  V.  69.     1.  Crime  and  its  Detection.     2.  Hyp- 

notism. 3.  Tragedy.  Hindu  priests  recover  a  stolen  jewel  by  the 
aid  of  hypnotism  and  murder.  Before  its  recovery  a  number  of  English 
people  are  involved  in  its  fortunes,  one  man  stealing  it  while  under  the 
influence  of  opium,  and  a  girl  who  loved  him  and  who  thought  him  a 
conscious  thief,  committing  suicide. 

407.  Man    and    Wife    (1870),    V.    48.     1.  Law    (Marriage).     2.  Crime. 

3.  Athletics.  4.  Insanity.  A  man,  brutalized  by  devotion  to  athletics, 
has  ruined  a  woman,  and  by  a  trick,  makes  a  friend  marry  her,  un- 
known to  either.  But  the  athlete  has  overreached  himself,  and  in 
the  negotiations  called  the  woman  his  wife,  which  is  marriage  by 
Scotch  law.  She  claims  him  as  her  husband,  and  he  accepts  her  as 
such,  threatening  her  life.  He  is  about  to  use  an  insane  woman  to 
accomplish  his  purpose,  when  he  is  stricken  by  paralysis. 


62       ANALYSIS   OF  THE    WORLD'S   STORIES 

GEOKGE    MACDONAXiD    (SCOTLAND,    1824-1905),    XIX.    303. 

408.  David    Elginbrod    (1862),    XII.    108.     1.  Religion.     2.  Education. 

3.  Hypnotism.  A  devout  Scotch  steward  is  an  influence  for  good  in 
the  education  of  a  young  man.  The  young  man  circumvents  a  vil- 
lain who  had  acquired  hypnotic  control  of  a  young  girl,  and  he  marries 
the  girl. 

MKS.    ALEXANDER    [MRS.    ALEXANDER    HECTOR,    NEE 
ANNIE    FRENCH]    (ENGLAND,    1826-1902),    XIX.    12. 

409.  WmcH  Shall  It  Be?  (1866),  I.   188.     1.  Love.     2.  Melodrama.    A 

poor  girl,  dependent  on  cruel  and  socially  ambitious  relatives,  is  about 
to  be  forced  into  marriage  to  a  villain.  She  escapes,  and  is  loved  in 
her  poverty  by  a  good  man.  She  comes  into  wealth,  and  her  lover, 
too  proud  now  to  woo  her,  withdraws  himself.  The  villain,  become  a 
maniac  for  love  of  her,  attempts  to  kill  her  and  himself,  and  she  is 
rescued  by  her  true  love. 

410.  The  Wooing  O't  (1873),  I.  197.     1.  Love.     2.  Friendship.     A  poor 

girl  among  rich  people  becomes  a  good  comrade  of  a  boyish  lord.  A 
mature  man,  his  unoflicial  guardian,  suspects  that  she  is  a  fortune- 
hunter.  She  undeceives  him  and  he  falls  in  love  with  her  and  marries 
her. 

WILLIAM    DODDRIDGE    BLACKMORE    (ENGLAND,    1S25-1900). 
XIX.    63. 

411.  LoRNA  Doone:  A  Romance  of  Exmoor  (1869),  III.  112.  1.  Love. 

2.  Adventure.  3.  English  Life  and  Scenery.  A  romance  of  Devon- 
shire in  the  17th  century.  A  yeoman  loves  a  daughter  of  an  outlaw, 
and  wins  her  after  heroic  adventures  with  her  people  in  their  retreat. 
The  hero  is  concerned  in  the  rebeUion  of  Monmouth,  and  Judge  Jeffreys 
appears  in  the  story. 


DINAH    MARIA    MULOCK    [CRAIK]    (ENGLAND,    1826-lf>87), 
XIX.    326. 

412.  John  Halifax,  Gentleman  (1857),  XIII.  1.     1.  Character,     2.  Busi- 

ness. 3.  Family  Life.  The  life  story  of  a  boy  of  sterling  character 
who  rose  from  a  tan-yard  worker  to  a  great  manufacturer.  The  love 
affairs  of  his  children,  as  well  as  of  himself,  are  the  features  of  chief 
interest.  Their  family  life  is  contrasted  with  that  of  dissolute  aris- 
tocracy. 

413.  A  Brave  Lady  (1870),  XIII.  12.     1.  Character.     2.  Heroism.     3.  Mar- 

riage.    A  character  study  of  a  noble  wife  of  a  shallow,  selfish  husband. 

CVTHBERT    BEDE    [EDWARD    BRADLEY]    (ENGLAND,    1827- 
1889),    XIX.    42. 

414.  The  Adventures  of  Mr.  Verdant  Green  (1853),  II.  395.  1.  Eng- 

lish University  Life.  2.  Humor.  3.  Love.  A  lively  story  of  the 
experiences  at  Oxford  of  an  unsophisticated  youth,  and  of  his  love- 
making  during  vacations. 


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ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES       63 

GCORGG    MEREDITH    (ENGLAND,    1828-  ).    XIX.    317. 

416.  The  Ordeal  of  Richard  Feverel  (1859),  XII.  287.  1.  Love. 
2.  Youth.  3.  Education.  A  gentleman's  son  marries  a  farmer's 
niece.  His  father  refuses  to  see  him  "on  principle."  The  young 
man,  in  disgrace,  succumbs  to  the  wiles  of  a  siren  and  is  involved  in 
a  duel.  Before  it  occurs  he  is  reconciled  to  his  wife.  He  is  badly 
wounded  in  the  duel  and  his  wife  dies  of  the  shock.  Her  father-in- 
law,  however,  fails  to  see  in  her  death  the  results  of  his  system  of  moral 
training. 

416.  The  Egoist  (1879),  XII.  299.     1.  Character.     A  study  of  a  selfish 

and  self-opinionated  man,  who  alienates  in  turn  the  woman  whom  he 
thinks  he  loves,  and  her  who  had  thought  she  loved  him. 

417.  Diana  of  the  Crossways  (1885),  XII.  310.     1.  Biography.     2.  Char- 

acter. 3.  Authorship.  4.  Politics.  The  original  of  the  heroine  was 
Mrs.  CaroHne  Norton,  the  poetess.  She  is  represented  as  a  brilliant 
author  and  a  meddler  in  politics,  in  the  latter  part,  complicating  her 
love  affairs,  from  which,  however,  she  happily  emerges  in  the  end. 

ELIZABETH    BUNDLE   CHARLES    (ENGLAND,    1888-1896), 
XIX.    89. 

418.  The  Sch6nberg-Cotta  Family  (1862),  IV.  360.     1.  History.     2.  Reli- 

gion. The  records  of  a  Protestant  family  during  the  Reformation. 
The  character  and  history  of  Luther  are  intimately  described. 

MARGARET    OLIPHANT    (SCOTLAND,    1828-1897),    XIX.    331o 

419.  Sai.em   Chapel    (1863),   XIII.    104.     1.  English  Middle   Class   Life. 

2.  Religion.  A  bachelor  preacher  of  a  church  of  shop-keepers  is 
attracted  by  a  woman  of  the  higher  classes,  leading  to  troubles  with 
his  congregation.  His  sister  is  ensnared  by  a  villain,  who  is  murdered. 
Suspicion  falls  on  her;  she  is  saved  by  her  brother,  who  retires  from 
the  ministry. 

420.  A  House  in  Bloomsbtoy  (1894),  XIII.  114.     1.  English  Middle  Class 

Life.  Domestic  tragedies  in  the  Ufe  of  the  family  of  a  librarian  in  the 
British  Museum.  A  long-lost  mother  returns  and  dies,  a  young  man 
is  claimed  as  her  son  by  a  woman  who  had  posed  as  a  maiden  lady 
and  he  marries  the  daughter  of  the  librarian. 

LAURENCE    OLIPHANT    (ENGLAND,    1829-1888),    XIX.    330. 

421.  Altiora  Peto   (1883),   XIII.   94.     1.  Character.     2.  Love.     3.  Busi- 

ness. A  study  of  marked  and  contrasting  personalities,  English  and 
American,  especially  in  the  relation  of  lovers.  Rascally  promoters, 
impecunious  aristocrats,  a  romantic  heiress  who  poses  as  a  poor  girl, 
an  intellectual  girl  whose  heart  is  late  in  developing,  etc.,  form  the 
characters- 


64       ANALYSIS   OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES 

EUZABETH    SARA    SHEPPARD    (ENGLAND,    1830-1862),    XIX.  374. 

422.  Charles     Auchester    (1853),     XV.     245.      1.  Music.       2.  Love. 

3.  Biography.  The  love  story  of  a  musician,  the  original  of  whom 
was  Felix  Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. 

HENRT    KINGSLEY    (ENGLAND,    1830-1876),    XIX.    383. 

423.  Recollections  of  Geoffry  Hamlin  (1859),  XI.  284.     1.  Australian 

Life.  2.  Crime.  3.  Tragedy.  A  forger  and  gambler  flees  to  Aus- 
tralia and  becomes  a  bush-ranger.  His  wdfe  follows  after  with  their 
son.  Grown  to  manhood,  the  son  has  a  fight  with  the  rangers  in 
which  he  is  killed  by  his  father. 

424.  Ravenshoe     (1862),     XL     296.     1.  Law.     2.  ReUgion.     3.  Intrigue. 

A  story  dealing  with  the  intrigue  of  a  Catholic  priest  to  keep  a  Protestant 
child  from  his  inheritance. 

JAMES    PAYN    (ENGLAND,    1830-1898),    XIX.    337. 

425.  Lost    Sir    Massingberd    (1864),    XIII.    177.     1.  Youth.     2.  Melo- 

drama. A  monster  of  wickedness,  who  oppresses  his  ward  and  uses  his 
estate,  strangely  disappears,  and  his  body  is  found  years  after,  like 
Longfellow's  arrow,  "in  the  heart  of  an  oak." 

CHARLES    HAMILTON    AIDE    (ENGLAND,    1830-  ),    XIX.    5. 

426.  Rita:  An  Autobiography  (1864),  I.  69.    1.  English  Society.     2.  Home 

Life.  3.  Rascality.  4.  Love.  The  domestic  troubles  of  a  girl  wdth 
a  scamp  of  a  father,  and  her  subsequent  complications  in  love  owing  to 
her  clouded  name.  The  author's  father  was  the  original  of  the  heroine's 
father.  Other  well-known  characters  of  Mid-Victorian  society  are 
portrayed  under  fictitious  names. 

427.  A  Voyage  of  Discovery  (1875),  I.  82.     1.  American  Society.     2.  Love. 

Love  affairs  of  an  English  girl  traveling  in  America  in  the  seventies. 

AMELIA    B.    EDWARDS    (ENGLAND,    1831-1892),    XIX.    166. 

428.  In  the  Days  of  My  Youth  (1872),  VIII.  148.     1.  Parisian  Student 

Life.  2.  Love.  The  story  of  the  dissipations,  love,  intrigues,  etc., 
of  an  English  student  in  the  Latin  Quarter  of  Paris. 

(HERE  MAT  FOLLOW  697.) 
GEORGE    MANVILLE   FENN    (ENGLAND,  1831-  ),  XIX.    174. 

429.  The  Master  of  the  Ceremonies  (1886),  VIII.  279.     1.  Character. 

2.  Crime.  3.  Paternal  Love.  A  social  functionary  is  hard  put  to 
keep  up  appearances.  He  resists  the  temptation  to  substitute  paste 
diamonds  for  real  ones,  owned  by  a  rich  lodger  in  arrears  of  rent.  But 
they  are  stolen  by  one  whom  he  believes  to  be  his  son.  The  son,  while 
denying  the  crime  to  his  father,  plans  to  save  the  old  man  who  is  charged 
with  the  theft.  The  son  is  a  soldier.  He  flogs  his  superior  oflScer, 
who  has  tempted  his  sister  to  elope,  and  purposely  gets  himself  shot 
by  attempting  to  escape  from  guard,  and,  dying,  takes  the  crime  on 


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himself.  But  it  transpires  that  the  major  is  the  criminal,  having 
impersonated  the  private  soldier. 

BENJAMIN    L..    FARJEON    (ENGLAND.    1833-1903),    XIX.    173. 

430.  Joshua   Marvel    (1872),    VIII.    268.     1.  Youth.     2.  Love.     3.  The 

Sea.  4.  Disguise.  One  of  a  group  of  young  people  goes  to  sea.  On 
his  return  he  is  wounded  by  an  enemy.  A  girl  saves  his  life.  He  mar- 
ries another  girl  and  returns  to  sea,  to  find  that  his  rescuer  through 
love  of  him  and  in  ignorance  of  his  marriage  has  shipped  in  disguise 
on  the  vessel.  They  are  wrecked  on  a  desolate  island,  but  live  like 
brother  and  sister.     She  dies  and  he  is  rescued. 

SABINE    BARING-GOULD    (ENGLAND.    1834-1906).    XIX.    35. 

431.  Grettir   the    Outlaw    (1860),    II.    298.     1.  History.     2.  Heroism. 

3.  Supematurahsm.  The  transcription  of  the  saga  of  an  Icelandic 
outlaw,  describing  his  feats  of  bravery  and  strength.  He  contends 
too  successfully  with  a  ghost,  and,  receiving  its  curse,  wastes  in  strength 
and  meets  with  disaster  and  ultimate  defeat. 

PHILIP    GILBERT    HAMERTON    (ENGLAND,    1834-1894). 
XIX.    343. 

432.  Wenderholme  (1869),   IX.   369.     1.  Youth.     2.  Love.     3.  Business. 

A  boy  rises  by  his  industry  from  a  childhood  of  cruel  usage  to  be  the 
owner  of  a  fine  country  estate,  and  the  husband  of  the  daughter  of 
its  former  proprietor,  who  has  been  ruined  by  extravagance. 

JOSEPH    H.    SHORTHOXJSE    (ENGLAND,    1834-1903).    XIX.    374. 

433.  John  Inglesant  (1881),  XV.   256.    1.  Religion.    2.   History.   3.  Phil- 

osophy. The  career  of  an  English  partisan  of  Archbishop  Laud,  who 
becomes  a  Catholic,  and  takes  part  in  the  Roman  insurrection  of 
Mohnos.  He  is  a  mystic  in  his  philosophy,  and  ends  his  life  as  a 
Quietist  in  religion. 

GEORGE    DU    MAURIER    (ENGLAND,    1834-1896).    XIX.    163. 

434.  Peter  Ibbetson  (1892),  VIII.  86.     1.  Psychic  Phenomena.     2.  Love. 

3.  Music.  4.  Art.  5.  Travel.  6.  Crime.  7.  Imprisonment. 
8.  Youth.  9.  Insanity.  A  man  kills  the  traducer  of  his  mother, 
and  is  imprisoned  for  life.  He  and  a  lady,  who  had  been  childish 
sweethearts,  make  a  pact  to  join  each  other  in  their  dreams.  So  they 
live  by  night  in  a  world  of  beautiful  music,  art,  scenery,  etc.,  more 
real  than  their  waking  existence.  The  death  of  the  lady  drives  the 
man  insane,  and  on  his  recovery  he  communes  with  her  spirit,  and  by 
longing  rapidly  passes  into  the  spirit  world  to  join  her. 

435.  Trilby  (1894),  VIII.  97.  1.  Hypnotism,  2.  Parisian  Student  Life. 
3.  Love.  4.  Pathos.  5.  Music.  6.  Art.  7.  Friendship.  Three 
Enghsh  artists  live  together  in  the  Latin  Quarter  of  Paris.  One  falls 
in  love  with  a  model,  and  his  people  come  and  take  him  away  from  her. 


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She  has  a  glorious  voice  but  is  tone-deaf.  A  man,  vile  in  looks  and 
character,  but  a  musical  genius  in  soul,  though  without  a  voice,  hypno- 
tizes her,  marries  her,  and  sings  to  the  world  through  her  voice.  The 
three  artists,  attracted  by  the  fame  of  the  new  singer,  go  to  a  concert, 
recognize  her  as  their  old  model;  the  hypnotist  suddenly  dies,  and, 
reUeved  from  the  spell,  she  breaks  down.  Broken  in  health,  she  dies, 
singing  a  swan  song,  under  the  spell  of  a  picture  of  the  hypnotist. 

WnJLIAM    MOKRIS    (ENGLAND,    1834-1896),    XIX.    334. 

436.  Childe     Christopher    (1895),     XII.     393.     1.  Youth.     2.  Legend. 

A  romance  in  the  style  of  mediaeval  legends,  telling  of  the  love  of  a 
prince  and  a  princess,  who  became  good  and  beloved  king  and  queen. 

BESANT    AND    RICE:    WALTER    BESANT    (ENGLAND,    183G- 
1901):    JAMES    RICE    (ENGLAND,    1846-1882);    XIX.    48. 

437.  Ready-Money  Mortiboy  (1871),  III.  34.     1.  Avarice.     2.  Rascality. 

3.  Character.  The  story  of  a  miser  robbed  by  his  owti  son,  who, 
though  a  precious  rascal,  exhibits  strong  elements  of  character,  such 
as  courage,  resourcefulness,  and  loyalty. 

WALTER    BESANT    (ENGLAND,    1836-1901),    XIX.    48. 

438.  All  Sorts  AND  Conditions  OF  Men  (1884),  III.  41.     1.  Social  Reform. 

2.  Love.  A  romance  in  which  the  lovers  are  brought  together  in  a 
plan  for  aiding  the  poor  by  establishing  an  institution  of  amusement 
and  instruction  in  the  East  Side  of  London  (The  People's  Palace). 

439.  HerrPaulus(1888),III.  47.     1.  Charlatanry  (SpirituaUsm).     2.  Char- 

acter. 3.  Love.  An  expos^  of  the  tricks  of  spirituaUsm,  and  a  study 
of  the  psychology  of  charlatanism,  with  incidental  love  romance. 

MARY    ELIZABETH    BRADDON    [MRS.    JOHN    MAXWELL] 
(ENGLAND,    1876-  ),    XIX.    62. 

440.  Lady  Audley's  Secret  (1862),  III.  181.     1.  Melodrama.     2.  Insan- 

ity. 3.  Crime.  The  story  of  the  unmasking  of  a  partially  demented 
adventuress  who  has  committed  bigamy  to  attain  social  position,  and 
who  commits  arson  and  attempts  homicide  to  evade  detection. 

441.  John  Marchmont's  Legacy  (1863),  III.  192.     1.  Melodrama.     2.  In- 

sanity. 3.  Crime.  4.  Jealousy.  A  jealous  step-mother,  partially 
demented,  and  an  envious  cousin  separate  by  intrigue  and  crime 
a  wife  from  her  husband.  Beheving  his  wife  dead,  the  husband  is 
about  to  remarry,  when  the  step-mother  repents  and  reveals  to  him  that 
his  vrife  is  alive. 

ANNE    THACKERAY    [RITCHIE]    (ENGLAND,    1838-  ), 

XIX.    401. 

442.  The  Village  on  the  Cliff  (1865),  XVI.  282.     1.  French  Life  and 

Character.  2.  Art.  3.  Love.  An  unsuccessful  English  artist  in 
Normandy  falls  in  love  with  his  peasant  model.     His  people  recall  him 


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to  England  to  separate  the  pair.  An  English  governess  learns  to  love 
him,  and  to  get  her  out  of  the  way  also,  the  artist's  friends  succeed  in 
persuading  her  to  marry  a  Frenchman.  This  man  and  the  artist  go  to 
rescue  a  wrecked  crew.  The  Frenchman  is  drowned.  Then  the  widow 
realizes  she  had  learned  to  love  him,  and  encourages  the  artist  to  remain 
true  to  his  peasant  love,  although  his  friends  are  now  desirous  that  he 
make  up  to  the  rich  widow. 

WALTER    PATER    (ENGLAND,    1839-1894),    XIX.    336. 

443.  Marius,  the  Epicurean  (1885),  XIII.   167.     1.  Religion.     2.  Phil- 

osophy. A  Roman  disciple  of  Epicurus  is  converted  to  Christianity 
and,  being  imprisoned,  dies  of  exposure. 

OUIDA    [LOUISE    DE   LA    RAMEE]    (ENGLAND,  1840-1908), 
XIX.    333. 

444.  Under    Two    Flags    (1867),    XIII.    134.     1.  Melodrama.     2.  Self- 

Sacrifice.  An  English  nobleman  is  ruined  by  the  forgeries  of  his  brother 
and  enlists  as  a  soldier  of  France  in  Algiers.  He  refuses  to  reveal  his 
identity  even  when  his  brother  succeeds  to  the  title  that  is  rightfully 
his  own,  and  he  resigns  the  woman  he  loves  to  another.  In  defence 
of  her  honor  he  strikes  his  commander  and  is  sentenced  to  death,  from 
which  he  is  saved  at  the  cost  of  her  life  by  a  woman  of  the  regiment.  . 
446.  Friendship  (1878),  XIII.  145.  1.  Autobiography.  2.  Character. 
3.  Pathos.  Said  to  be  founded  on  a  love  affair  of  the  author.  A  woman 
false  friend  comes  between  the  heroine,  an  Englishwoman,  and  her 
lover,  an  Italian  nobleman,  who  proves  too  weak  to  contend  against 
circumstances;  and  the  lovers  are  doomed  to  hve,  the  man  in  self- 
reproaching  despair  and  the  woman  in  resigned  melancholy. 

RHODA    BROUGHTON    (ENGLAND,    1840-  ),    XIX,    68. 

446.  Good-bye,    Sweetheart!     (1872),    III.    293.     1.  Pathos.     2.  Love. 

A  coquette  offends  her  lover  beyond  power  of  reconciliation.  He 
marries  another  and  she  dies  on  his  wedding  day. 

447.  Nancy  (187.3),  III.    304.     1.  Love.     2.  Jealousy.     A  young   girl  mar- 

ries a  man  of  middle  age,  and,  hearing  he  had  been  engaged  to  an 
attractive  widow,  becomes  jealous,  and  flirts  vrith  another  man. 
However,  she  repents  of  her  conduct,  and  is  rewarded  by  learning 
that  she  is  her  husband's  only  love. 

THOMAS    HARDY    (ENGLAND,    1840-  ),       XIX.    344. 

448.  Far  From  THE  Madding  Crowd  ( 1874),  X.  1.    1.  Rustic  Life.    2.  Trag- 

edy. 3.  Love.  A  farmer  woos  a  poor  girl,  who  refuses  him  because 
of  the  inequality  of  the  match.  Later,  their  positions  are  reversed; 
she  inherits  a  farm  and  he  becomes  her  shepherd.  He  refuses  to  make 
love  to  her  and  she  throws  herself  away  on  an  adventurer,  who  is  killed 
by  another  of  her  lovers.  Finally,  she  indicates  to  the  shepherd  her 
preference  for  him. 


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449.  The  Return  OF  THE  Native  (1878),  X.  11.     1.  Rustic  Life.     2.  Trag- 

edy. 3.  Intrigue.  A  wife,  fascinated  by  an  old  lover,  himself  married 
to  a  woman  loving  another  man,  neglects  her  mother-in-law,  thereby 
causing  her  death,  and  finally  is  drowned  with  her  lover.  Her  husband 
becomes  an  evangelist,  and  the  wife  of  the  dead  man  marries  her  lover. 

450.  The  Mayor  of  Casterbridge  (1885),  X.  22.     1.  Village  and  Rustic 

Life.  2.  Tragedy.  A  drunken  rustic  sells  his  wife  and  child  to  a 
sailor.  The  rustic  forswears  drink,  and  rises  to  be  mayor  of  a  town. 
His  wife  returns,  the  sailor  having  died,  with  her  little  daughter.  The 
mayor  accepts  the  wife,  annulling  his  marriage  to  another  woman. 
His  rival  in  trade  falls  in  love  with  the  daughter  and  is  rejected  by  the 
mayor.  On  his  wife's  death  the  mayor  learns  that  the  girl  is  not  his 
daughter,  and  recalls  his  objections  to  her  lover.  But  the  lover  has 
transferred  his  affections  to  the  woman  discarded  by  the  mayor,  and 
shortly  marries  her.  The  mayor  fights  his  rival,  but  forgoes  his  revenge 
when  he  has  him  at  his  mercy.  The  mayor  and  his  rival's  wife  die, 
and  the  rival  marries  the  sailor's  daughter. 

451.  Tess  of  the  D'Urbervilles  (1891),  X.  32.     1.  Tragedy.     2.  Rustic 

Life.  3.  Character.  A  country  girl  is  betrayed  by  a  man  of  an  old 
family.  Later  she  marries  a  cultured  man  who  has  voluntarily  put 
himself  in  the  farming  class.  On  their  wedding  night,  he  confesses 
his  lapses  from  chastity,  and  she  tells  of  her  fall.  But  he  does  not  con- 
done her  fault,  and  separates  himself  from  her.  She  is  then  sought 
out  by  her  betrayer,  and,  urged  by  her  needy  family,  she  becomes  his 
mistress.  Her  husband  returns  repentant,  and  she  kills  her  betrayer, 
and  suffers  death  for  the  murder. 

MABT    CECn.    HAT    (ENGLAND,    1840-1886),    XIX.    253. 

452.  Old  Myddleton's  Money  (1874),  X.  203.     1.  Crime  and  its  Detec- 

tion. 2.  Comedy.  A  miser  has  been  murdered;  his  nephew  disap- 
pears, and  is  charged  with  the  crime,  but  is  at  last  exonerated  by  the 
discovery  of  the  real  criminal,  and  brought  back  to  be  the  heir.  There 
is  a  secondary  plot,  in  which  a  rich  old  lady  disguises  herself  as  a  poor 
one,  and  by  her  reception  by  her  kinsfolk,  picks  out  the  one  deserving 
to  inherit  her  wealth. 

KATHERINE    MACQUOID    (ENGLAND,    1840-  ),    XIX.    304. 

453.  At  the  Red  Glove  (1885),  XII.  138.     1.  Character.     2.  Swiss  Life. 

A  study  of  middle  class  life  and  character  in  Berne,  Switzerland,  deal- 
ing especially  with  matrimonial  scheming  and  love  affairs. 

WILLIAM    BLACK    (SCOTLAND,    1841-1898),    XIX.    62. 

464.  The  Monarch  of  Mincing  Lane  (1871),  III.  86.  1.  English  Society. 
2.  Love.  A  rich  man,  in  order  to  prevent  his  son  marrying  a  poor 
girl,  contrives  to  have  her  marry  a  drunken  rascal.  The  son  is  a  good 
comrade  of  a  high-born  girl  whom  his  father  intends  him  to  marry, 


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and,  when  her  father  becomes  embarrassed  for  funds,  proposes  to  marry 
her.  They  are  saved  from  this  mistake  by  the  young  man  becoming 
independent  of  his  father  through  a  legacy,  the  return  of  the  high-born 
girl's  sweetheart,  and  the  death  of  the  poor  girl's  drunken  husband. 
466.  The  Strange  ADVENTtJRES  OF  A  Phaeton  (1872),  III.  92.  1.  Charac- 
ter. 2.  Love.  A  German  officer  is  a  member  of  an  English  party 
driving  for  pleasure  over  England.  A  young  lady  in  the  party,  preju- 
diced against  him  at  first,  learns  to  appreciate  his  fine  traits  of  character, 
which  favorably  contrast  with  the  boorish  manners  of  an  English  suitor, 
and  becomes  engaged  to  him  at  the  end  of  the  drive. 

466.  A  Princess  of  Thule  (1873),  III.  98.     1.  Scottish  Life.     2.  Love. 

3.  Character.  A  Londoner  marries  a  girl  of  the  Hebrides  Islands, 
and  takes  her  to  London,  where  her  husband  tires  of  her  because  of  her 
primitive  habits.  She  flees  from  him;  he  repents  his  cruelty,  changes 
his  idle  habits  for  industrious,  and  becomes  at  last  united  to  her  in 
her  Highland  home. 

467.  MACLEOD    of    Dare    (1878),    III.    105.     1.  Scottish    Life.     2.  The 

Theatre.  3.  Tragedy.  4.  Character.  A  raw,  high-born  Highlander 
falls  in  love  with  a  London  actress,  and  they  become  affianced.  She 
visits  his  home  and  is  dismayed  at  the  desolate  life  in  prospect.  Re- 
turning to  London,  she  breaks  the  engagement.  Crazed  by  this,  the 
Highlander  kidnaps  her  on  his  yacht  and  both  go  down  in  a  storm. 

ROBERT    BUCHANAN    (ENGLAND.    1841-1901),    XIX.    70. 

468.  God  and  the  Man  (1881),  III.  327.     1.  Melodrama.     2.  Adventure. 

The  dramatic  tale  of  a  man  who  pursues  another  who  had  injured 
him,  and,  when  thrown  with  him  on  a  desert  isle,  forgets  his  thirst  for 
revenge  and  succors  him. 

CLARK    RUSSELL    (ENGLAND,    1844-  ),    XIX.    358. 

469.  The  Wreck  of  the  Grosvenor  (1878),  XIV.   147.     1.  Sea  Life. 

2.  Adventure.  Sailors  mutiny  against  a  cruel  captain  and  mate  and 
kill  them.  They  scuttle  the  ship  and  desert  it,  leaving  on  it  the  second 
mate,  the  boatswain,  and  an  old  man  and  his  daughter,  who  had  been 
picked  up  from  a  wreck.  These  contrive  to  keep  the  ship  afloat  until 
they  are  rescued. 

ADA    CAMBRIDGE    (ENGLAND,.  1844-  ),    XIX.    78. 

460.  The  Three  Miss  Kings  (1891),  IV.  263.    1.  Australian  Life.     2.  Love. 

3.  Character.  The  love  affairs  of  three  Australian  girls.  Their  char- 
acters and  their  lovers'  are  clearly  differentiated. 

ANDREW    LANG    (SCOTLAND,    1844-  ),    XIX.    289. 

461.  A  Monk  of  Fife  (1895),  XI.  371.     1.  History.     2.  Adventure.     The 

romantic  experiences  of  a  Scotsman  in  France  at  the  time  of  Joan  of 
Arc. 


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HUGH    CONWAY    [FBEDEKICK    JOHN    FARGUS]    (ENGLAND, 

1847-1885),    XIX.    99. 

462.  Called  Back  (1883),  V.  93.     1.  Crime  and  its  Detection.     2.  Blind- 

ness. 3.  Music.  4.  Psychic  Phenomena.  A  blind  man  is  the  "wit- 
ness" of  a  murder.  He  recovers  his  sight  afterward,  and  marries  a 
girl  to  whom  the  past  is  a  blank.  Later,  under  the  spell  of  music,  she 
reproduces  the  scene  of  the  murder,  of  which  she  also  had  been  a 
witness,  and  its  perpetrators  are  thereby  discovered. 

DAVID    CHRISTIE    MURRAY    (ENGLAND,    1847-1907),    XIX.   327. 

463.  The  Way  of  the  World  (1884),  XIII.  35.     1.  Journalism.     2.  Love. 

A  love  romance  centering  about  a  newspaper  venture. 

WILLIAM    E.    NORRIS    (ENGLAND,    1847-  ),    XIX.    339. 

464.  The  Rogue  (1888),  XIII.  56.     1.  Character.     A  story  in  which  the 

interest  is  cleverly  fixed  upon  the  question  of  just  how  much  of  a  rascal 
the  chief  character  may  be. 

FLORA    ANNIE    STEEL    (ENGLAND,    1847-  ),    XIX.    384. 

465.  On  THE  Face  OF  THE  Waters  (1896),  XV.  408.     1.  History.     2.  Hero- 

ism. A  romance  of  thrilling  rescues  and  hair-breadth  escapes  of  Eng- 
lish men  and  women  in  the  Sepoy  Rebellion. 

(HERE    MAY  FOLLOW  634,  635,  AND  636.) 

ROBERT^  LOUIS    STEVENSON    (SCOTLAND,    1860-1894),   XIX.  389. 

466.  Treasure  Island  (1883),  XVI.  1.     1.  Youth.     2.  Adventure.     3.  Pi- 

racy. A  boy's  story  of  an  expedition  after  buried  treasure  in  a  Pacific 
island,  and  of  a  contest  for  it  with  pirates. 

467.  Prince  Otto  (1885),  XVI.  12.     1.  Adventure.     2.  Loyalty.     3.  Love. 

A  sentimental  king  of  a  mythical  coimtry  has  a  brilliant  queen  who 
does  not  realize  how  much  she  loves  him  until  by  the  machinations  of 
his  enemies,  who  play  upon  her  high  opinion  of  her  own  abiHties,  he 
is  deposed.  Then  she  does  not  accept  his  renunciation  of  her,  but 
begins  life  over  with  him  as  a  humble  citizen. 

468.  The  Strange  Case  of  Dr.  Jekyll  and  Mr.  Hyde  (1886),  XVI.  24. 

1.  Psychic  Phenomena.  2.  Allegory.  3.  Imagination.  4.  Tragedy. 
5.  Chemistry.  A  physician  vrath  a  longing  for  lawless  pleasure  dis- 
covers a  chemical  which  enables  him  to  separate  himself  into  two 
personalities;  one,  a  respectable  doctor,  the  other,  a  vicious  criminal. 
On  the  exposure  of  this  double  life,  he  kills  himself,  leaving  a  con- 
fession of  his  misdeeds.  The  story  is  an  allegory  of  the  debasing 
effects  of  self-indulgence. 

469.  The  Master  of  Ballantrae  (1889),  XVI.  32.     1.  Kinship.     2.  Ad- 

venture. 3.  Oriental  Craft.  The  story  of  a  feud  between  a  wicked 
elder  brother  and  a  younger,  to  whom  he  has  forfeited  his  inheritance. 
The  elder  pursues  the  younger  with  persecutions,  and  the  younger's 


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wife  with  attentions,  even  to  America.  The  villain  seeks  buried  treas- 
ure in  the  Adirondacks.  To  escape  death  at  the  hands  of  his  partner 
in  the  enterprise,  his  Oriental  servant  buries  him  alive,  returning, 
however,  too  late  to  resuscitate  him. 

470.  Kidnapped  (1886),  XVI.  44.     1.  Youth.     2.  Adventure.     3.  History. 

An  heir  is  kidnapped  by  order  of  his  wicked  uncle,  to  be  sold  to  labor 
in  the  Carolinas.  The  ship  is  vn-ecked  on  the  Scots  island  of  Mull, 
and  the  hero  escapes  with  a  Highland  gentleman,  outlawed  for  his 
part  in  the  rebellion  of  1745.  After  many  adventures  they  return 
to  the  lad's  home,  and  successfully  plot  the  undoing  of  the  wicked  uncle. 

471.  The  Black  Arrow  (1888),  XVI.  54.     1.  Youth.    -2.  History.     3.  Ad- 

venture. A  juvenile  romance  of  the  War  of  the  Roses.  An  heiress 
runs  away,  disguised  as  a  boy,  from  a  young  husband  that  is  to  be 
forced  upon  her  by  a  wicked  guardian.  She  falls  in  with  the  very 
lad,  and,  he  being  ignorant  of  her  sex,  they  become  good  comrades,  and 
have  many  exciting  adventures,  chiefly  with  a  band  of  outlaws  who  are 
enemies  of  the  guardian.  Finally  the  villain  is  discomfited  and  the 
comrades  are  converted  into  lovers. 

472.  David     Balfour     (1893),     XVI.     67.     1.  Adventure.     2.  Love.     A 

sequel  to  "Kidnapped"  (470).  The  hero  is  drawn  into  further  ad- 
ventures by  his  outlaw  comrade.  He  becomes  the  protector  of  the 
daughter  of  an  infamous  perjurer,  a  noble  girl  who  repudiates  her 
father,  and  in  the  end  he  marries  her. 

473.  Weir  of  Hermiston  (1894),  XVI.     77.     1.  Tragedy.     2.  Character. 

A  young  man  kills  the  seducer  of  a  girl  who  had  been  his  own  sweet- 
heart. His  father,  as  a  criminal-judge,  condemns  him  to  death.  The 
girl's  brothers  rescue  him  forcibly  from  jail,  and  he  escapes  with  the 
girl  to  America.  But  the  father  had  died  of  grief  over  sentencing 
his  son. 

474.  St.     Ives     (1894),     XVI.    90.     1.  Adventure.     2.  History.     3.  Love. 

French  soldiers  of  Napoleon  are  imprisoned  in  Edinburgh.  A  girl 
visits  the  prisoners  and  buys  their  trinkets.  An  officer  among  them  kills 
a  fellow  prisoner  in  a  duel  for  insulting  her.  He  escapes,  and  is  har- 
bored by  her.     At  the  end  of  the  war  he  returns  and  marries  her. 

JESSIE    FOTHERGILL    (ENGLAND,    1851-1891),    XIX.    191, 

475.  The    First    Violin    (1877),    VIII.     420.     1.  Music.     2.  Love.     An 

English  girl  flees  from  a  rich  and  rascally  suitor,  who  is  being  forced  on 
her,  to  Germany,  where  she  studies  music.  She  falls  in  love  with  a 
fellow  traveller,  a  seeming  gentleman,  but  whom  she  next  sees  as  a 
fiddler  in  an  orchestra.  In  her  confusion  she  cuts  him.  He  assumes 
that  this  is  done  purposely  and  refuses  to  accept  her  explanations.  He 
saves  her  life  while  out  skating  and  reveals  his  own  love,  but  perversely 
tries  to  make  her  hate  him.  The  reason  for  this  becomes  apparent 
when  a  story  is  spread  about  that  he  is  a  thief,  disowned  by  his  high- 
bom  family,  and  he  does  not  deny  it.     The  English  girl  sets  to  work 


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and  finds  that  he  is  shielding  the  real  thief,  who  was  his  wife,  now  dead. 
The  two  lovers  marry  and  he  is  restored  to  his  former  social  position. 

MRS.    HUMPHRY    WARD    (ENGLAND,    1861-  ),    XIX.    418. 

476.  Lady  Rose's  Daughter  (1903),  XVII.   168.     1.  Biography.     2.  Char- 

acter. 3.  Politics.  The  original  of  the  heroine  was  Julie  de  Lespin- 
asse,  a  Parisian  who,  in  the  middle  of  the  18th  century,  conducted  a 
famous  literary  salon.  The  author  has  removed  the  scene  to  London, 
and  the  time  to  the  present,  and  made  the  heroine  intrigue  in  politics 
for  the  sake  of  her  lover.  He  is  a  selfish  man  and  she  is  saved  from 
him  and  the  consequences  of  her  own  folly,  by  the  daring  of  a  true- 
hearted  man. 

HAIX   CAINE    (S;NGi:.AND,    1853-  ),    XIX.    77. 

477.  The     Deemster     (1887),     IV.   252.      1.  Melodrama.     2.  Religion- 

3.  Love.  A  dramatic  tale  of  the  Isle  of  Man,  in  which  a  man  kills 
his  cousin,  repents,  and  heroically  loses  his  life  in  saving  the  com- 
munity that  has  cast  him  out.  His  old  sweetheart  teaches  the  dying 
man  to  pray. 

GEORGE    MOORE    (IRELAND,    1853-  ),    XIX.    320. 

478.  Esther  Waters  (1894),  XII.  336.     1.  Service.     2.  Racing.     3.  Real- 

ism. The  life  of  a  servant  girl  of  racing  people,  written  in  realistic 
manner. 

479.  Evelyn  Innes  (1898),  XII.     347.     1.  Music.     2.  Character.     3.  Re- 

ligion. A  study  of  the  musical  temperament.  A  prima  douna  is 
pulled  about  by  the  emotions  of  love,  music,  and  religion. 

STANLEY    WEYMAN    (ENGLAND,    1865-  ),    XIX.    432. 

480.  A  Gentleman  OF  France  (1893),  XVII.  210.     1.  History.     2.  Adven- 

ture. The  romantic  adventures  of  a  poor  nobleman  in  the  service  of 
Henry  III.  in  his  relations  with  Henry  of  Navarre,  afterward  Henry  IV. 

SARAH    GRAND    [FRANCES    CX.ARKE    McFALL]    (IRELAND, 
1855-  ),    XIX.    229. 

481.  The  Heavenly  Twins  (1893),  IX.   193.     1.  Education.     2.  Ethics. 

3.  Marriage.  4.  Disguise.  A  novel  dealing  with  the  higher  educa- 
tion of  women  and  the  ethics  of  marriage.  A  young  wife  disguises 
herself  as  her  twin  brother,  and  forms  Platonic  relations  with  a  tenor, 
which  leads  to  his  death  and  the  anguish  of  her  husband,  with  whom, 
however,  she  becomes  reconciled. 

GEORGE    BERNARD    SHAW    (IRELAND,    1856-  ),    XIX.    371. 

482.  The   Irrational  Knot   (1880),   XV.   217.     1.  Ethics.     2.  Marriage. 

3.  Business.  An  electrical  inventor  marries  an  aristocratic  woman. 
Their  ideals  and  habits  of  life  are  incompatible,  and  she  elopes  with 
a  man  of  her  class.  She  repents,  and  is  reconciled  to  her  husband, 
but  they  agree  that  to  live  apart  is  the  wisest  course. 


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483.  Cashel    Byron's   Profession    (1882),    XV.    227.     1.  Prize-fighting. 

2.  Marriage.  An  intellectual  woman  marries  a  prize-fighter,  who  is 
nothing  more  than  a  splendid  animal.  This  union  of  opposites,  or, 
rather,  complements,  proves  a  most  happy  one. 

F.    ANSTET    [THOMAS    ANSTET    GUTHRIE]    (ENGLAND. 
1866-  ),    XIX.    16. 

484.  Vice    Versa    (1882),     1.     269.     1.  Youth.     2.  Comedy.     3.  Magic. 

By  the  influence  of  an  amulet  a  father  and  son  exchange  places  and 
bodies,  but  not  minds,  one  going  to  school,  where  he  is  persecuted  for 
his  airs  by  his  fellows,  and  the  other  to  the  oflSce,  where  he  plays  hob 
with  business. 

485.  The    Giant's    Robe    (1883),    I.    280.     1.  Authorship.     2.  Rascality. 

3.  The  Love.  4.  Heroism.  An  author  succumbs  to  the  temptation 
to  let  the  novel  of  a  friend,  supposed  to  be  dead,  pass  as  his  own.  The 
secret  is  discovered  by  a  rejected  suitor  of  the  author's  sweetheart, 
who  plots  to  revenge  himself  by  promoting  their  marriage  and  then 
exposing  the  author's  crime.  The  wedding  takes  place,  the  true  author 
returns,  and,  being  in  love  himself  with  the  wife,  frustrates  the  charge 
against  the  husband  by  assuming  responsibility  for  the  literary  forgery, 
thus  incurring  the  contempt  of  the  wife.  The  husband  reveals  the 
truth,  however,  when  the  true  author  is  dying. 

48&  The  Tinted  Venus  (1885),  I.  292.  1.  Magic.  2.  Comedy.  A 
London  barber  puts  a  ring  on  the  finger  of  a  statue  of  Venus,  which  is 
thereby  endowed  with  life,  and  also  with  love  for  the  barber,  causing 
him  no  end  of  trouble  with  his  sweetheart. 

487.  A   Fallen   Idol   (1886),    I.  300.     1.  Magic.     2,  Comedy.     3.  Love. 

The  idol  of  a  mischief-making  East  Indian  god  comes  into  the  posses- 
sion of  an  artist,  and  plays  hob  with  his  affairs,  especially  his  love- 
making. 

H.    RIDER    HAGGARD    (ENGLAND,    1856-  ),    XIX.    240. 

488.  King  Solomon's  Mines  (1886),  IX.  328.     1.  Adventure.     2.  Melo- 

drama. 3.  Wealth.  The  strange  adventures  of  an  English  party  in 
South  Africa,  searching  for  the  lost  mines  of  King  Solomon.  They 
are  saved  from  death  by  the  self-sacrifice  of  a  negro  girl,  and  suffer 
imprisonment  in  the  mines,  whence  they  escape  with  pockets  full  of 
diamonds. 

489.  She  (1887),  IX.  338.     1.  Magic.     2.  Melodrama.     English  explorer  sin 

South  Africa  meet  a  female  chief  who  seems  to  have  immortal  youth  and 
beauty.  She  recognizes  one  traveller  as  the  incarnation  of  an  ancient 
lover.  She  takes  him  to  a  flame  streaming  up  from  earth's  centre, 
which  is  a  fountain  of  immortality,  and,  to  persuade  him  to  bathe  in  it, 
steps  herself  within, — and  is  turned  to  a  withered  hag,  old  in  appearance 
as  her  2,000  years,  dying  in  agonies  of  love  and  shame. 


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OSCAR    WILDE    (IRELAND,    1866-1900),    XIX.    423. 

490.  The  Picture  OF  Dorian  Gray  (1890),  XVII.  236.     1.  Ethics.     2.1m. 

agination.  3.  Magic.  4.  Art.  5.  Crime.  6.  Tragedy.  7.  The 
Theatre.  A  beautiful  young  man  has  his  portrait  painted,  and,  under 
the  influence  of  a  tempter,  who  tells  him  youth  and  beauty  are  the 
only  desirable  things  in  life,  wishes  that  the  portrait  grow  old  and  ugly, 
and  that  he  remain  through  life  as  he  is.  His  wish  is  magically  granted. 
He  plunges  into  vice  and  crime,  without  visible  effect  on  himself,  causing 
an  actress  to  kill  herself  for  him,  and  ending  with  murdering  the  artist 
and  destroying  the  painting  in  a  maniacal  rage,  after  which  he  falls 
dead,  and  is  found,  old  and  hideous,  at  the  foot  of  the  portrait  restored 
to  its  pristine  youth  and  beauty. 

FIONA    MACLEOD    [WILLIAM    SHARP]    (Scotland,    1856-1905),    XIX.    370. 

491.  Pharais(  1894),  XII.    128.     1.  Insanity.     2.  Imagination.    3.  Pathos. 

A  young  husband  of  the  Hebrides  goes  mad  with  temperamental  mel- 
ancholy, and  he  and  his  wife  resolve  to  drown  themselves  to  prevent 
the  evil  passing  to  their  unborn  child.  They  are  rescued,  each  beUev- 
ing  the  other  dead.  The  child  is  born  blind.  The  parents  are  united. 
The  child  dies,  and  his  death  is  followed  by  the  mother's,  the  father 
lapsing  into  a  state  of  mild  lunacy. 

(HERE  MAY  FOLLOW  690.) 

EDNA    LYALL    [ADA    ELLEN    BAYLY]    (ENGLAND,    1859- 
1903),    XIX.    399. 

492.  Donovan  (1882),  XII.  73.     1.  Religion.     2.  Character.     The  story  oi 

an  atheist,  persecuted  for  his  honest  convictions,  who  becomes  a  broad 
minded  Christian. 

A.    CONAN    DOYLE    (SCOTLAND,    1869-  ),    XIX.    158. 

493.  A  Study  in  Scarlet    (1887),    VII.  280.      1.    Detection    of    Crime 

2.  Character.  3.  Mormonism.  The  detection,  by  clues,  of  a  murder 
of  a  Mormon,  in  vengeance  for  his  crimes.  The  intellectual  powers 
of  the  detective  are  the  distinctive  feature  of  the  story. 

494.  The  White  Company  (1890),  VII.  286.     1.  History.     2.  Adventure. 

3.  Chivalry.  An  historical  romance  of  the  time  of  Edward  III., 
describing  the  deeds  of  an  English  troop  of  knights  and  archers  in 
Spain,  in  behalf  of  King  Pedro.  The  character  of  the  doughty  captain 
of  the  troop  is  of  chief  interest.  Edward,  the  Black  Prince,  and  Du 
GuescUn  appear  in  the  story. 

MARY    CHOLMONDELEY    (ENGLAND,    1869-  ),    XIX.    93. 

495.  Red  Pottage  (1889),   IV.  389.     1.  Tragedy.     2.  Love.     A  husband 

and  his  wife's  paramour  draw  lots  as  to  which  shall  kill  himself  by  a 
certain  date.  The  paramour  is  chosen.  He  falls  in  love  with  a  girl  in 
the  interim,  and,  on  the  death  by  accident  of  his  fellow  "duellist," 
fails  to  fulfill  the  pact.  He  confesses  his  dishonor  to  the  girl,  and  she 
wDurns  him.     Then  he  kills  himself. 


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JEROME    K.    JEROME    (ENGLAND,    1859-  ),    XIX.    274. 

496.  Paul   Kelver   (1902),   XL    122.     1.  Autobiography.     2.  Authorship. 

3.  The  Theatre.  4.  Friendship.  A  semi-autobiographical  tale  of 
an  author's  career;  he  is  entrapped  into  an  engagement  with  a  barmaid, 
involved  in  a  literary  theft  by  a  collaborating  playwright,  passes  through 
calf-love,  but  comes  out  all  right  in  the  end,  sustained  by  the  good 
comradeship  of  a  sensible  woman. 

MAXWELL.  GRAY  [MART  G.  TUTTIETT]  (England,  18 ),  XIX.   833. 

497.  The  Silence  of  Dean  Maitland  (1886),  IX.  229.     1.  Crime  and  its 

Punishment.  2.  Tragedy.  A  clergyman  seduces  a  girl  and  in  self- 
defence  murders  her  father.  He  is  dressed,  for  disguise,  in  the  clothing 
of  a  friend,  who  is  accused,  convicted,  and  imprisoned  for  the  crime.  At 
the  expiration  of  his  sentence  he  hears  the  clergyman  deliver  an  elo- 
quent sermon  against  the  Judas  type  of  man.  The  preacher  sees 
him,  is  convicted  of  his  sin,  and  confesses  his  crime,  falling  dead  in 
the  pulpit. 

JAMES    MATTHEW    BARRIE    (SCOTLAND,    1860-  ),    XIX.   36. 

498.  A  Window   in  Thrums    (1889),    II.   320.     1.  Biography.     2.  Char- 

acter. 3.  Family  Love.  4.  Pathos.  5.  Humor.  A  story  of  a 
Scotch  woman,  a  cripple,  the  original  of  which  was  the  author's  mother, 
and  of  her  husband,  a  born  "humorist."  The  joys  and  sorrows  of 
motherhood  are  depicted. 

499.  The     Little     Minister    (1891),    II.  327.      1.  Love.     2.  Religion. 

3.  Character.  4.  Melodrama.  The  love  romance  of  a  young  Scotch 
minister  and  a  wild  gipsy  girl,  vidth  resultant  soul  tragedy,  and,  because 
of  the  machinations  against  the  girl  of  a  fanatic  member  of  the  minis- 
ter's congregation,  a  melodramatic  ending. 

SAMUEL    RUTHERFORD    CROCKETT    (SCOTLAND,    1860-  ), 

XIX.    107. 

600.  The  Lilac   Sunbonnet  (1894),  VI.  40.     1.  Love.     An   idyllic   story 

of  two  sweethearts,  who  are  each  tricked  at  their  tryst  by  lovers  they 
had  spurned,  and  whose  union  is  opposed  by  the  minister,  on  the  ground 
that  the  girl  was  illegitimate,  he  being  her  father.  Despite  such  oppo- 
sition the  two  lovers  marry. 

MAY    SINCLAIR    (ENGLAND,    1860-  ),    XIX.    377. 

601.  The  Divine   Fire   (1904),   XV.   288.     1.  Authorship.     2.  Love.     3. 

Business.  4.  Character.  The  career  of  a  book-store  clerk,  who 
becomes  a  poet.  He  falls  in  love  with  an  intellectual  woman  of  social 
position,  with  whom  his  business  puts  him  upon  a  false  footing.  A 
false  friend  creates  further  trouble  between  them;  but  she  is  brave 
enough  to  overlook  appearances  and  put  aside  conventional  prejudice 
and  let  him  know  she  loves  him. 


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MAURICE    HEWLETT    (ENGLAND,    1861-  ),    XIX.    254. 

502.  The  Forest  Lovers  (1898),  X.  220.  1.  Chivalry.  2.  Love.  3. 
Adventure.  A  tale  in  the  mode  of  mediaeval  romance,  in  which  a  true 
knight  combats  with  a  false  one,  a  wicked  lady  gets  the  good  knight 
in  her  toils,  etc.,  and  virtue  triumphs  in  the  end. 

603.  Richard  Yea-and-Nay  (1900),  X.  229.  1.  ffistory.  2.  Character. 
3.  Adventure.  4.  Chivalry.  A  character  study  of  Richard  I.  of  Eng- 
land, especially  in  his  relations  with  women.  Many  adventures  are 
described,  especially  those  of  the  Crusades. 

EDEN    PHILLPOTTS    (ENGLAND,    186»-  ),    XIX.    341. 

504.  SonsoftheMorning(1900),  XIII.  221.     1.  Love.     2.  Self-Sacrifice. 

3.  Nature.  A  woman  thinks  herself  In  love  with  two  men,  who  are 
drawn  together  in  a  common  love  for  nature.  One,  feeling  the  other 
the  better  man,  goes  away,  and  is  reported  dead.  She  marries  the 
other.  Number  one  retvims  and  becomes  a  comrade  of  the  wife. 
The  husband  then  effaces  himself,  committing  suicide  as  if  he  died 
by  accident,  whereupon  the  widow  realizes  that  she  had  loved  him 
truly.  She  marr-.es,  however,  the  other  man  from  a  sense  of  duty  to 
him. 

ARTHUR    T.    QUILLER-COUCH    (ENGLAND,    1863-  ),    XIX.  347. 

505.  The  Splendid  Spur  (1889),  XIII.  302.     I.  History.     2.  Adventure. 

3.  Love.  An  Oxford  student,  a  partisan  of  the  king,  is  entangled  in 
the  English  Revolution.  He  escapes  from  the  Roundheads  with  a 
girl  disguised  as  a  boy.  Another  girl  loves  him  and,  assuming  the  love 
is  returned,  causes  trouble  between  him  and  the  girl  in  disguise,  whom 
alone  he  loves.  But  the  unloved  one  dies  after  aiding  him  to  escape, 
and  all  is  made  right  between  him  and  the  other. 

ANTHONY    HOPE    [HAWKINS]    (ENGLAND,    1863-  ),    XIX.    863. 

506.  The  Prisoner  of  Zenda  (1894),  X.  337.     I.  Adventure.     2.  Love. 

3.  Disguise.  4.  Ethics.  An  Englishman  is  the  physical  double  of  a 
king  of  a  mythical  Balkan  state,  in  which  he  is  a  tourist.  A  revolu- 
tion breaks  out.  The  king  is  captured.  The  Englishman,  in  the 
king's  interest,  assumes  the  throne,  representing  himself  as  the  king 
himself.  A  princess,  betrothed  to  the  king,  but  who  had  not  loved  him, 
is  charmed  with  this  new  revelation  of  his  personality,  as  it  seems  to  her. 
When  the  king  is  restored  to  his  throne,  the  Englishman  has  the  choice 
presented  him  of  keeping  or  resigning  the  princess.  In  the  higher 
interests  of  duty,  they  both  renoimce  their  love,  and  each  goes  his  ap- 
pointed way. 

MAX   PEMBERTON    (ENGLAND,    1863-  ),    XIX.    339. 

507.  The  Footsteps  of  a  Throne  (1900),  XIII.  200.     1.  Russian  Life. 

2.  Gambling.     An  Englishman  loves  a  Russian  princess,  who  is  rapidly 


ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES       77 

impoverishing  herself  by  her  inherited  passion  for  gambling.  The 
paternal  Rxissian  government  interferes  with  their  proposed  marriage, 
but  he  cleverly  foils  the  governor  who  has  her  in  charge,  and  the  lovers 
escape  to  England. 

W.    W.    JACOBS    (ENGLAND,    1863-  ),    XIX.    371. 

608.  At  Sunwich  Port  (1902),  XI.  62.     1.  Humor.     2.  Character.     3.  Sea 

Life.  Intrigues  of  parents  and  lovers  in  a  village  of  active  and  retired 
sailors.  An  old  sea-captain  who  intends  to  get  his  son  kidnapped, 
to  save  him  from  marrying  his  enemy's  daughter,  finds  himself 
"crimped." 

MARIE   CORELLI    [MINNIE    MACKAY]    (ENGLAND,    1864-  ), 

XIX.    104. 

609.  A  Romance  of  Two  Worlds  (1886),  VI.  8.     1.  Magic.    2.  Imagina- 

tion. 3.  Electricity.  4.  Tragedy.  A  phantasmagoria  of  mysticism, 
in  which  electricity  is  represented  as  the  divine  power  of  the  universe. 
An  adept  in  its  use  is  the  chief  character.  His  sister  is  his  subject, 
and  her  death  by  lightning  forms  the  tragic  climax  of  the  story. 

ISRAEL]  ZANGWILL    (ENGLAND,    1864-  ),    XIX.     438. 

610.  Children  of  the  Ghetto  (1892),  XVII.  292.     1.  Jewish  Life  and 

Character.  2.  Authorship.  A  story  of  Ufe  in  the  poor  Jewish  quarter 
of  London,  depicting  the  career  of  a  girl  who  gains  fame  as  an  author, 
and  wins  the  love  of  an  Oxford  graduate. 

ROBERT    HICHENS    (ENGLAND,    1864-  ),    XIX.    256. 

611.  The    Green    Carnation    (1894),    X.    251.     1.  Satire.     2.  Humor. 

3.  Character.  A  humorous  satire  upon  Oscar  Wilde's  aesthetic  phi- 
losophy, in  which  the  personalities  of  Wilde  and  a  typical  disciple  of 
his  are  portrayed  in  exaggerated  form. 

612.  The  Garden  of  Allah  (1905),  X.  263.     1.  Geography.    2.  Character. 

3.  Love.  4.  Religion.  A  liberal  Catholic  woman  meets  a  strange, 
unsophisticated  sort  of  a  man  on  an  oasis  in  the  Sahara.  They  are 
mutually  attracted  and  marry.  It  transpires  that  he  is  an  emancipated 
Trappist  monk.  He  repents  the  breaking  of  his  vows,  and  his  wife 
sends  him  back  into  the  church. 

RUDTARD    KIPLING    (ENGLAND,    1865-  ),    XIX.    284. 

613.  The  Light  that  Failed  (1890),  XI.  307.      1.  Journalism.     2.  Art. 

3.  Comradeship.  4.  Love.  5.  Heroism.  A  journalist  and  artist  be- 
come chums  in  the  Soudanese  war.  Returning  to  London,  the  artist 
blocks  his  model's  designs  on  the  journaUst.  In  revenge  she  destroys 
his  masterpiece.  But  the  artist  has  become  blind,  and  is  not  cogniz- 
ant of  the  loss,  which  his  sweetheart  conceals  from  him.  The  lovers 
become  estranged  and  the  blind  man  goes  to  the  Soudan  and  throws 
himself  into  a  fight  where  he  is  killed. 


78       ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES 

614.  Captains  Courageous  (1897),  XI.  321.  1.  Youth.  2.  Sea-Life. 
3.  Ethics.  A  rich  man's  son,  spoiled  and  insolent,  falls  overboard 
from  an  Atlantic  liner,  and  is  picked  up  by  a  Yankee  fishing-smack, 
where  he  is  put  to  work,  and  so  is  made  a  man  of. 

515.  The  Jungle  Book  (1894),  XI.  330.  1.  Youth.  2.  Animals.  The 
story  of  a  were-wolf,  a  boy  adopted  by  wolves,  who  becomes  the  master 
of  the  beasts  of  the  forest. 

EIXEN    THORNETCKOFT    FOWLEK    (ENGLAND,    1873-  ), 

XIX.    193. 

616.  A  Double  Thread  (1899),  IX.  20.  1.  Impersonation.  2.  Love. 
An  heiress,  to  encourage  her  lover  too  proud  to  propose,  impersonates 
her  twin  sister,  a  poor  girl,  and  as  such  weans  him  away  from  her  rich 
self.  She  contrives  that  her  poor  self  is  under  suspicion  of  theft.  He 
comes  forward  to  the  defence,  and  she  then  reveals  the  deception. 
He  is  angered  and  goes  away.  She  tries  to  love  another,  but  fails  to 
do  so.     The  report  of  her  refusal  brings  her  old  lover  to  her  side. 


UNITED  STATES  OF  AMERICA 

SUSANNA    KOWSON    (ENGLAND,  1761-1824),    XIX.    367. 

617.  Charlotte  Temple  (1790),  XIV.   127.     1.  Biography.     2.  Betrayal. 

3.  Pathos.  A  true  story  of  a  woman  now  buried  in  Trinity  churchyard. 
New  York,  who  was  betrayed  by  her  lover. 

WASHINGTON    IRVING    (1783-1859),    XIX.    269. 

618.  Rip  Van  Winkle  (1819),  XI.  40.     1.  Legend.     2.  Magic.     3.  History. 

4.  Character.  5.  Humor.  A  legend  of  the  Catskills  during  Colonial 
and  Revolutionary  times.  The  hero,  a  lovable,  lazy,  henpecked  hus- 
band, meets  a  goblin  crew,  and,  drinking  their  brew,  falls  asleep  for 
twenty  years.  Awaking,  he  finds  wonderful  changes  in  his  village,  the 
pleasantest  of  which  is  the  demise  of  his  shrevrish  wife. 

519.  The  Legend  OF  Sleepy  Hollow  (1819),  XI.  53.     1.  Legend.     2.  Hu- 

mor. 3.  Character.  4.  Magic.  A  Yankee  schoolteacher  and  a 
New  York  Dutchman  are  rivals  for  the  hand  of  a  farmer's  daughter  at 
Tarrytown,  N.  Y.,  in  Colonial  days.  The  Dutchman  scares  the 
Yankee  away  from  the  neighborhood,  by  representing  the  part  of  a 
Headless  Horseman,  a  legendary  spirit. 

JAMES   FENIMORE    COOPER    (178^-1851),    XIX.    100. 

520.  Precaution  (1820),  V.  101.       1.  English  Society.     2.  Mistaken  Iden- 

tity. 3.  Love.  A  love  romance  in  aristocratic  EngUsh  circles,  which 
is  complicated  by  a  mistake  in  the  identity  of  the  lover,  and  its  satis- 
factory explanation. 


ANALYSIS   OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES       79 

621.  The  Spy  (1821),  V.   113.     1.  History.     2.  Patriotism.     3.  Love.     A 

love  romance  complicated  by  the  events  and  animosities  of  the  Revo- 
lutionary war.  The  titular  character  is  a  private  spy  of  General 
Washington,  who  endures  the  odium  of  treason  for  his  country's  good. 

622.  The  Pioneers  (1823),  V.  124.     1.  Pioneer  and  Indian  Life  and  Char- 

acter. 2.  Heroism.  3.  Pathos.  4.  Love.  The  fifth  of  the  "  Leather- 
stocking  Tales."  In  it  the  hero  and  his  comrade,  the  Mohegan  chief, 
Chingachgook,  endure  the  one  imprisonment,  the  other  death,  to 
protect  the  person  and  secret  of  the  senile  ovraer  of  an  estate,  held  by 
others.  The  old  man's  grandson,  on  the  revelation  of  the  secret, 
becomes  the  accepted  lover  of  a  girl  to  whom  he  had  hitherto  been  too 
modest  to  pay  coixrt. 

623.  The  Pilot  (1823),  V.  138.     1.  Sea  Life  and  Character.     2.  History. 

3.  Love.  A  conventional  love  romance  in  a  maritime  setting,  which 
is  the  distinctive  feature  of  the  novel.  An  old  coxswain,  Long  Tom 
CoflSn,  is  the  most  original  character.  The  titular  character  is  under- 
stood to  represent  John  Paul  Jones,  the  sea  hero  of  the  American 
Revolution. 

624.  Lionel    Lincoln  (1825),    V.  148.      1.  History.     2.  Melodrama.     3. 

Insanity.  A  romance  whose  scene  is  laid  in  Boston  at  the  beginning 
of  the  Revolutionary  War.  The  hero  is  a  British  soldier,  whose  life 
is  saved  at  Lexington  and  Concord  by  an  old  Continental  lunatic  and  a 
simpleton,  who  prove  afterward  to  be  his  father  and  half  brother. 
Their  deaths  are  tragic,  but  clear  the  way  for  the  success  in  love  and 
advancement  in  society  of  the  hero. 

626.  The  Last  of  the  Mohicans  (1826),  V.  161.  1.  Pioneer  and  Indian 
Life  and  Character.  2.  Adventure.  3.  Tragedy.  4.  History.  The 
second  of  the  " Leatherstocking  Tales."  The  chief  characters  are 
Leatherstocking,  the  pioneer,  and  the  Indian  father  and  son,  Chin- 
gashgook  and  Uncas.  They  perform  prodigies  of  valor  in  the  war 
of  1756,  in  conveying  a  white  party  through  hostile  Indian  country, 
Uncas  meeting  a  tragic  death  in  vainly  trying  to  save  one  of  the  ladies. 

626.  The  Red  Rover  (1827),  V.  171.  1.  Sea  Life.  2.  Piracy.  3.  His- 
tory. A  maritime  romance  of  the  days  preceding  the  American  Revo- 
lution. The  titular  hero  is  a  gallant  slaver  and  pirate,  who  saves  from 
his  wild  crew  a  captain  who  had  won  his  respect  by  a  brave  resistance. 

527.  The  Prairie  (1827),  V.  181.     1.  Frontier  and  Indian  Life.     2.  Trag- 

edy. The  fifth  and  the  last  of  the  "Leatherstocking  Tales."  The 
hero,  grown  old,  has  become  a  trapper  in  the  West.  He  is  instrumental 
in  detecting  a  murder  and  an  abduction  among  a  party  of  emigrants. 
Warfare  between  two  Indian  tribes  and  a  duel  between  their  chiefs 
are  described. 

528.  The  Wept  of  Wish-Ton-Wish  (1829),  V.  193.     1.  History.     2.  Pio- 

neer and  Indian  Life.  3.  Tragedy.  A  tale  of  early  New  England, 
in  which  the  Indian   chiefs  King   Philip  and  Canonche  figure.     An 


8o        ANALYSIS    OF   THE    WORLD'S    STORIEb 

Indian  captive,  a  boy,  saves  the  children  of  a  pioneer  from  massacre. 
One  child  is  captured  by  the  Indians,  and  years  after  meets  her  mother 
and  dies  in  her  arms.  A  regicide  of  Charles  I.  aids  the  pioneers  in 
their  fight  against  the  Indians. 

529.  The  Water  Witch  (1830),  V.  205.  1.  Sea  Life.  2.  Piracy.  3. 
Heroism.  4.  History.  A  pirate  leads  a  British  cruiser  a  pretty  chase 
in  New  York  waters  in  colonial  days.  The  cruiser  is  attacked  by  two 
French  vessels,  whereupon  the  pirate  comes  to  its  rescue. 

630.  The  Bravo  (1831),  V.  212.  1.  Melodrama.  2.  Crime.  3.  Heroism. 
A  romance  intended  to  illustrate  in  all  its  phases  the  tyranny  of  the 
doges  of  Venice. 

531.  The  Heidenmauer  (1832),  V.  226.  1.  History.  2.  Religion.  A 
tale  of  the  contest  between  the  German  barons  and  monks  in  the  days 
of  Luther.  A  famous  drinking-bout  between  the  champions  of  the 
two  classes,  held  at  Hartenburg,  is  described. 

632  The  Headsman  (1833),  V.  239.  1.  Social  Prejudice.  2.  Crime. 
3.  The  Dog.  A  romance  based  on  the  prejudice  against  the  public 
executioner.  He  is  represented  as  a  man  of  noble  nature,  with  a  fair 
daughter  and  brave  son,  about  whose  proposed  marriages  troubles  arise 
because  of  their  father's  calling.  The  betrothed  of  the  girl  repudiates 
her,  and  is  afterward  murdered.  The  crime  is  charged  against  a 
stranger,  who  saves  himself  by  revealing  himself  as  the  son  of  the 
Doge  of  Genoa.  But  the  true  son  is  found  to  be  the  reputed  son  of 
the  headsman.  The  heroic  act  of  a  St.  Bernard  dog  in  saving  life  is 
described,  and  it  plays  an  important  part  in  the  crime  and  its  detection. 

633.  The  Monikins  (1835),  V.  251.     1.  Satire  (Political  and  Social).     The 

hero  defers  marriage  until  he  has  made  every  possible  conquest  in  man's 
world,  that  of  business  and  politics,  when  he  finds  his  lady  love  is  not 
quite  ready  for  him,  still  having  a  few  conquests  to  make  in  her  woman's 
world  of  admiration.  Various  monkeys  are  introduced  in  the  story 
in  satire  of  human  foibles. 

634.  Homeward   Bound  and  Home  as  Found  (1837),  V.   259.     1.  Sea 

Life.  2.  Character.  3.  Family  Life.  4.  Autobiography.  A  novel 
and  its  sequel,  relating  the  adventures  on  the  sea  of  an  American 
family  returning  from  Europe.  The  author  makes  a  special  effort  to 
depict  types  of  character,  that  of  the  sea-captain  being  the  best.  One 
character  is  intended  to  portray  the  author  himself. 

636.  The  Pathfinder  (1840),  V.  270.  1.  Pioneer  and  Indian  Life  and 
Character.  2.  Adventure.  3.  Love.  4.  History.  The  third  of  the 
"  Leatherstocking  Tales."  The  hero  and  Chingachgook  perform 
valorous  deeds  in  the  war  of  1756,  chiefly  on  behalf  of  a  lady  with 
whom  Leatherstocking  is  in  love.  He  has  a  rival  in  her  affections, 
who  is  falsely  accused  of  treachery,  and  to  him  Leatherstocking  resigns 
her. 


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ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES       8i 

536.  Mercedes  of  Castile  (1841),  V.  283.  1.  Histor>'.  2.  Love.  A 
companion  of  Columbus,  in  love  with  a  lady  of  the  court  of  Ferdinand 
and  Isabella,  is  attracted  by  an  Indian  princess  who  resembles  his 
sweetheart,  and  saves  her  life  and  brings  her  to  Spain.  The  sweet- 
heart is  jealous,  but  the  lover  proves  his  fidelity.  The  Indian  becomes 
a  Christian  and  dies  contented  that  she  was  second  in  the  Spaniard's 
afifection. 

637.  The  Deerslayer  (1841),  V.  295.     1.  Pioneer  and  Indian  Life  and 

Character.  2.  Adventure.  3.  Love.  The  first  of  the  "Leather- 
stocking  Tales."  The  hero  and  his  Indian  comrade,  Chingachgook 
save  a  pioneer  family  from  the  Iroquois.  Leatherstocking  gives  himself 
up  as  a  hostage  to  them,  and  is  about  to  be  slain,  when  one  of  the  pio- 
neer's two  daughters  interposes  to  delay  the  execution,  until  Chin- 
gachgook arrives  with  a  rescue  party. 

638.  The  Two  Admirals  (1842),  V.   305.     1.  Sea  Life  and  Character. 

2.  History.  3.  Loyalty.  A  story  of  the  reign  of  George  II.,  when 
France  was  supporting  the  cause  of  the  Pretender,  Charles  Edward. 
An  admiral  who  sympathizes  with  the  Stuart  cause,  delays  aiding  a 
fellow  admiral  in  fight  with  the  French,  until  he  sees  him  hard  beset, 
when  he  comes  to  the  rescue,  losing  his  life. 

539.  Wing  and  Wing  (1842),  V.  312.     1.  Sea  Life  and  Character.     2.  His- 

tory. A  story  of  clever  manoeuvering  by  a  French  privateer  in  the 
Napoleonic  war.  The  captain  of  the  craft  and  an  American  sailor 
are  the  chief  characters.     Lord  Nelson  appears  in  the  story. 

540.  Wyandotte  (1843),  V.  320.     1.  Indian  Character.     2.  Pioneer  Life. 

3.  Tragedy.  4.  History.  A  pioneer  family,  during  the  Revolution, 
are  attacked  by  Indians.  An  Indian  supposed  to  be  friendly  kills 
one  of  the  party  who  had  insulted  him,  and  is  badly  wounded  saving 
others  who  trusted  him. 

641.  Satanstoe  (1844),  V.  333.     1.  Pioneer  Life.     2.  History.     3.  Indian 

Character.  4.  Love.  The  first  of  the  Littlepage  Manuscripts. 
Rivalry  of  two  men  for  one  woman.  There  is  a  thrilling  account  of 
a  sleigh-ride  on  the  Hudson  River  while  the  ice  is  breaking  up.  The 
operations  against  Ticonderoga  are  described.  An  Indian  revenges 
himself  on  a   negro  who  had  flogged  him. 

642.  Afloat  and  Ashore   (1844),   V.   344.     1.  Sea  Life.     2.  Adventure. 

3.  Piracy.  4.  History.  The  second  of  the  Littlepage  Manuscripts. 
Encounters  with  pirates  and  French  vessels  in  the  war  with  France 
after  the  Revolution. 

643.  Miles   Wallingfobd   (1844),   V.   353.     1.  Sea   Life.     2.  Adventure. 

3.  History.  The  third  of  the  Littlepage  Manuscripts.  The  sequel 
of  "Afloat  and  Ashore."     Sea  fights  during  the  War  of  1812. 

544.  The  Chainbearer  (1845),  V.  364.     1.  Pioneer  Life  and  Character. 
2.  Love.     3.  Tragedy.     The  fourth  of  the   Littlepage  Manuscripts. 


82       ANALYSIS   OF  THE   WORLD'S   STORIES 

An  ignorant,  but  brave,  true-hearted  surveyor's  assistant,  gives  up  his 
life  for  the  girl  he  loves,  in  a  fight  with  a  timber-stealing  squatter. 

645.  The    Redskins    (1846),    V.    377.     1.  History.     2.  Pioneer   Life.     3. 

Labor.  The  fifth  of  the  Littlepage  Manuscripts.  The  story  relates 
to  the  Anti-Rent  disturbances  in  New  York  State  in  the  forties,  when 
squatters,  disguised  as  Indians,  attacked  the  landlords.  They  are 
captured  by  real  Indians. 

646.  The      Crater      (1847),      V.     390.     1.  Sea     Life.     2.  Adventure. 

3.  Physical  Geography.  Adventures  of  a  castaway  on  a  volcanic  island 
appearing  and  later  disappearing  in  the  sea. 

647.  Jack  Tier  (1848),  V.  402.     1.  Sea  Life.     2.  Adventure.    3.  Piracy. 

4.  Disguise.  A  law-breaking  sailing  vessel  is  pursued  by  a  U.  S. 
steamer  (gunboat).  The  captain  has  been  followed  to  sea  by  his  wife 
disguised  as  a  sailor.  She  prevents  him  abducting  another  man's 
sweetheart. 

548.  The  Oak  Openings  (1848),  V.  411.     1.  Pioneer  and  Indian  Life  and 

Character.  2.  History.  3.  Bee-hunting.  The  scene  is  in  the  Michi- 
gan woods  at  the  outbreak  of  the  War  of  1812.  A  bee-hunter  is  the 
chief  character.  He  has  befriended  an  Indian  who  saves  him  and  his 
wife  from  massacre. 

549.  The   Sea  Lions   (1849),  V.   423.     1.  Sea  Life.    2.  Adventure.    3. 

Hidden  Treasure.  A  race  between  two  Long  Island  whaling  ships, 
each  named  "The  Sea  Lion,"  for  hidden  treasure. 

550.  The  Ways  of  the  Hour  (1850),  V.  431.     1.  Law.     2.  Crime  and  its 

Detection.  A  story  intended  to  show  the  inadequacy  of  the  jury  sys- 
tem, especially  in  criminal  cases.  A  woman  is  arrested  for  murder. 
She  refuses  to  escape  by  bribery,  and  is  convicted  on  circumstantial 
evidence,  but  is  freed  later,  by  the  appearance  of  the  man  supposed 
to  have  been  murdered. 

JOHN  P.  KENNEDY  (1795-1870),  XIX.  281. 

551.  Horseshoe  Robinson  (1835),  XI.  208.     1.  History.    2.  Love.     A 

love  romance  based  on  the  warfare  between  Whigs  and  Tories  in 
the  Revolution,  in  southern   Virginia  and  the  Carolinas. 

DANIEL   P.    THOMPSON    (1795-1868),    XIX.   406. 

662.  The  Green  Mountain  Boys  (1840),  XVI.  421.  1.  History.  A 
romance  of  the  controversy  between  New  Hampshire  and  New  York 
over  Vermont,  and  of  the  Revolution.  The  characters  have  originals 
in  history.     Ethan  Allen  and  Benedict  Arnold  appear  in  the  story. 

ROBERT    MONTGOMERY    BIRD    (1803-1854),    XIX.    50. 
653.  Nick  of  the  Woods  (1837),  III.  55.     1.  Melodrama  (Indian  Warfare). 
2.  Pioneer  life  in  America.     A  sensational  romance  of  a  mad  Quaker, 
who  massacres  Indians  under  the  gmse  of  a  spirit. 


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ANALYSIS   OF  THE   WORLD'S   STORIES       83 

NATHANIEL.    HAWTHORNE    (1804-1861),    XIX.    351. 

664.  Fanshawe  (1828),  X.  130.  1.  Character.  2.  Tragedy,  A  college 
student,  doomed  by  disease  to  an  early  death,  is  ready  to  sacrifice  his 
life  to  save  his  sweetheart  from  a  rufiian.  The  ruffian  perishes  by 
accident,  and  the  lover  resigns  the  girl  to  a  young  man  in  health,  and 
dies. 

656.  The  Scarlet  Letter  (1850),  X.  141.  1.  Tragedy.  2.  Religion. 
3.  Character.  4.  Ethics.  An  adulteress  bears  a  mark  of  her  lapse 
from  chastity,  concealing  the  name  of  the  man  equally  guilty  with 
her.  This  man  is  the  clergyman.  Unable  to  bear  the  reproaches  of 
his  conscience,  at  last  he  publicly  acknowledges  his  guilt. 

666.  The  House  of  the  Seven  Gables  (1851),  X.  152.     1.  New  England 

Life  and  Character.  2.  Tradition.  3.  Discovered  Treasure.  A 
judge,  a  rich  heir,  persecutes  a  poor  brother  and  sister,  his  fellow  heirs, 
supposing  the  brother,  who  is  a  lunatic,  knows  of  the  location  of  treasure 
belonging  to  the  estate.  The  judge  falls  dead,  a  victim  to  an  ancient 
curse.  His  death  is  charged  to  the  lunatic,  but  it  and  the  treasure 
myth  are  explained  by  a  young  photographer,  the  lover  of  a  cousin  of 
the  family. 

667.  The  Blithedale  Rosiance  (1852),  X,  162.     1.  Philosophy.     2.  Char- 

acter. 3.  History.  4.  Love.  A  love  romance  dealing  with  the 
farm  community  founded  by  the  Trancendentalists,  some  of  whom  ap- 
pear under  fictitious  names  in  the  story,  Margaret  Fuller  and  the  au- 
thor in  particular. 

668.  The  Marble  Faun  (1860),  X.  171.     1.  Character.     2.  Imagination. 

3.  Sculpture.  4.  Roman  Scenery.  5.  Tragedy.  A  young  Italian 
is  admitted  into  a  circle  of  American  artists  in  Rome.  He  is  a  rein- 
carnation in  mind  and  form  of  the  classic  man-animal,  the  faun.  He 
loves  an  American  artist,  and  for  her  sake  and  with  her  consent  com- 
mits a  murder.     He  is  imprisoned  and  she  suffers  in  soul  for  the  crime. 

669.  SEPTmrus  Felton  (1871),  X,  181.     1.  History.     2.  Magic.     3.  Tradi- 

tion. 4.  Botany.  A  minute  man  in  the  American  Revolution  kills 
a  red-coat,  who,  dying,  gives  him  the  recipe  of  an  Elixir  of  Life.  The 
sweetheart  of  the  English  soldier  plans  revenge.  One  ingredient  of 
the  elixir  is  a  magic  flower.  So  she  mixes  in  the  draught  a  flower  of 
death.  But  she  has  learned  to  love  the  American,  and  drinks  the 
potion  herself. 

WHXIAM    GILMOBE    SIMMS    (180e-1870),    XIX.    376. 
560.  The   Yemassee   (1835),   XV.    279.     1.  North   American   Indian.     2. 
History.     A  romance  dealing  with  the  salvation  of  the  colony  of  South 
Carolina  from  Indians  and  Spaniards  by  Governor  Charles  Craven. 

CHARLES   FENNO    HOFFMANN    (1806-1884).    XIX.    257. 
661.  Greyslaer   (1840),  X.    275.     1.  History.     2.  Adventure.    3.  Crime 


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and  its  Detection.  A  romance  founded  on  the  conflict  of  the  American 
Revolutionists  with  the  Mohawks  under  Joseph  Brant.  Many  exciting 
scenes  are  depicted,  the  abduction  and  rescue  of  young  ladies,  the 
trial  of  the  hero  for  the  murder  of  a  man,  who  is  found  to  be  alive,  etc. 

HENRY    W.    LONGFELLOW    (1807-1882),    XIX.    395. 

562.  Hyperion  (1839),  XII.  39.     1.  Travel.     2.  Love.     3.  Pathos.     5.  Lit- 

erature. A  young  American  travels  through  scenes  in  Europe  remi- 
niscent of  great  men  in  hterature  and  historic  deeds.  He  falls  in  love 
with  a  talented  Englishwoman,  who  does  not  respond  to  his  passion, 
and  he  returns  home  in  melancholy. 

EDGAR    ALLAN    POB    (1809-1849),    XIX.    341. 

563.  The  Narrative  of  Arthur  Gordon  Pym  (1838),  XIII.  232.     1.  Ad- 

venture. 2.  Mysticism.  A  voyage  to  the  imknown  South  Polar 
regions,  where  strange  adventures  are  had  with  natives  who  have  a 
mystical  fear  of  everything  white. 

564.  The  Fall  of  the  House  of  Usher  (1839),  XIII.  239.     1.  Tragedy. 

2.  Mysticism.  3.  Insanity.  4.  Music.  5.  Medicine.  A  brother 
and  a  sister,  living  alone  in  their  ancient  house,  have  a  strange  affinity 
with  it.  The  sister  is  buried  while  in  a  catalepsy.  She  revives  and 
bursts  her  tomb,  whereupon  her  brother  goes  mad;  the  house,  in  sym- 
pathy with  the  tragedy,  falls  in  ruin,  and  buries  him.  The  psychic 
effects  of  music  are  discussed,  and  the  philosophy  of  the  sentience 
of  inanimate  objects. 

TIMOTHY    SHAY    ARTHUR    (1809-1886),    XIX.    17. 

665.  Ten  Nights  IN  A  Barroom  (1850),  I.  330.     1.  Temperance.     2.  Trag- 

edy. 3.  Pathos.  A  story  of  crime  incited  by  drink,  and  of  its  resultant 
misery. 

OLIVER    WENDELL    HOLMES    (1809-1894),    XIX.    269. 

666.  Elsie  Venner   (1861),   X.   297.     1.  Medical   Science.     2.  Character. 

3.  Snakes.  A  story  of  prenatal  influence  by  which  a  girl  has  been 
endowed  with  some  of  the  characteristics  of  a  rattlesnake,  and  with 
power  over  the  serpent  tribe.  She  falls  in  love  with  a  young  doctor 
and  saves  him  from  the  rattlesnakes;  he,  however,  does  not  respond 
to  her  love,  though  under  stress  of  it  she  casts  off  the  serpent  influence, 
dying  in  the  struggle. 

567.  The  Guardian  Angel  (1868),  X.  307.     1.  Character.     2.  Crime  and 

its  Detection.  3.  Love.  A  retired  scholar  watches  over  the  interests 
of  a  young  girl,  an  heiress,  who  has  inherited  strong  powers  of  character 
for  good  or  evil.  He  guides  her  love  affairs  successfully,  and  frus- 
trates a  plot  to  rob  her  of  her  property. 

568.  A  Mortal  Antipathy  (1885),  X.  318.     1.  Medical  Science.     2.  Char- 

acter.    3.  Education.     A  young  man  who  was  injured  by  the  careless- 


ANALYSIS    OF   THE    WORLD'S    STORIES        85 

ness  of  a  beautiful  young  lady  in  his  babyhood,  has  a  physical  antipathy 
to  blooming  young  womanhood.  He  is  attracted  from  afar  by  the  sight 
of  the  students  of  a  woman's  college  winning  a  rowing  race  with  students 
of  a  man's  college.  He  falls  ill;  the  house  takes  fire,  and  the  leader 
of  the  oarswomen  rescues  him,  thereby  breaking  the  spell,  and  engen- 
dering mutual  love  in  rescuer  and  rescued. 

FANNY  FERN  [SARAH  PAYSON  PABTON]  (1811-187S),  XIX.  174. 

569.  Ruth   Hall   (1868),   VIII.    285.     1.  Autobiography.     2.  Authorship. 

3.  Marriage.  A  young  couple  are  nagged  by  the  man's  parents, 
and  move  away  from  them,  thereby  becoming  estranged  from  the  old 
folks.  The  husband  dies  and  the  wife  resorts  to  writing  to  make  a 
living  for  herself  and  children.  Though  discouraged  by  her  brother, 
a  famous  author  and  editor,  she  persists  and  wins  success.  She  mar- 
ries a  kindly  editor  and  triumphs  over  her  discouragers.  This  is  a 
semi-autobiographical  story,  the  author's  brother,  N.  P.  Willis,  standing 
for  the  portrait  of  the  heroine's  brother. 

HARRIET    BEFCHER    STOWE    (181»-1896),    XIX.    393. 

570.  Uncle  Tom's  Cabin  (1852),  XVI.    134.     1.  Slavery.     2.  Pathos.     A 

tale  of  American  negro  slavery  depicting  all  its  evils,  the  separation  of 
families,  concubinage,  torture,  hounding  of  fugitives,  etc. 
571  The  MiNiSTER'sWooiNG  (1859),  XVI.  160.  1.  History.  2.  Character. 
3.  Religion.  4.  Slavery.  A  story  of  New  England  types  of  character 
late  in  the  eighteenth  century.  Aaron  Burr  and  Dr.  Hopkins  appear  as 
leading  characters,  the  amours  of  the  former  being  narrated,  and  the 
anti-slavery  views  of  the  other  expressed.  The  plot  springs  from  the 
reported  death  of  a  young  man,  whose  mother  thereupon  inveighs 
against  God's  cruelty,  and  whose  sweetheart  agrees  to  marry  another 
suitor,  the  preacher,  although  without  love.  The  young  man's  return, 
and  the  minister's  resignation  to  him  of  the  maiden,  end  the  story. 

572.  Agnes  of  Soeiiento  (1861),  XVI.  171.     1.  Italian  Life  and  Character. 

2.  History.  3.  Religion.  4.  Love.  A  young  girl,  destined  for  the 
church,  is  beloved  by  one  of  Savonarola's  adherents.  He  rescues  her 
from  the  clutches  of  the  Borgias,  and,  upon  a  friar's  assurance  that 
marriage  was  a  sacrament  as  well  as  holy  orders  she  is  persuaded  to 
become  his  wife. 

573.  Oldtown  Folks    (1869),   XVI.    149.     1.  Character.     2.  Religion.     3. 

Ethics.  A  story  of  New  England  life  and  character,  especially  in 
their  religious  and  ethical  aspects.  A  bride,  discovering  that  her  hus- 
band has  a  child  by  a  mistress,  adopts  it,  and  acts  a  wifely  part  till 
reHeved  by  the  death  of  her  rascally  husband. 

ANN    SOPHIA    STEPHENS     (1813-1886),    XIX.    38S. 

574.  Fashion  and  Famine  (1854),  XV.   443.     1.  Melodrama.      2.  Crime. 

3.  Punishment.     A  seducer  of  women  and  a  forger  is  unmasked  by 


86       ANALYSIS   OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES 

the  lover  of  a  girl  he  had  ruined,  who  has  taken  service  with  him  to 
bring  about  his  exposure.  The  villain  learns  that  his  daughter  is  living 
with  her  mother's  father.  He  visits  the  old  man  to  get  the  girl  to  use 
as  a  pledge  against  his  oonviction.  He  is  foiled;  whereupon  he  kills 
himself.  The  old  man  is  held  for  the  murder,  but  dies  before  the  trial. 
The  granddaughter,  a  flower-girl,  marries  the  son  of  a  benefactor 
and  lives  in  happy  ignorance  of  her  criminal  father. 

HENBT    WARD    BEECHEB    (1813-1887).    XIX.   43. 

676.  Norwood  (1867),  II.  406.  1.  New  England  Life.  2.  History.  S' 
Character.  4.  Love.  A  story  of  Ufe  in  a  country  and  in  a  college 
town  of  New  England,  in  which  types  of  Yankee  character  are  presented, 
and  a  romance  developed  of  the  clash  between  love  and  patriotism 
during  the  Civil  War  period. 

RICHARD    B.    KIMBALL.    (1816-1892),    XIX.    282. 

676.  St.  Leger  (1835),  XI.  214.     1.  Legend.     2.  Melodrama.     A  tale  of 

the  fulfilment  of  a  prophecy  of  evil  through  the  revenge  of  a  servant 
against  a  villain  who  had  vsronged  his  master. 

ELIZABETH    PATSON    PRENTISS    (1818-1878),    XIX.    344. 

677.  Stepping  Heavenward  (1869),  XIII.  271.     1.  Religion.     2.  Youth. 

3.  Married  Life.  The  diary  of  a  woman  from  youth  through  married 
life,  expressing  her  religious  emotions,  her  love,  and  her  devotion  to 
husband  and  children. 

HERMAN    MELVILLE    (1819-1891),    XIX,    316. 

678.  Typee  (1846),  XII.  259.     1.  Travel.     2.  Adventure.     A  sailor's  ad- 

ventures among  the  savages  of  the  Marquesas  islands  in  the  Pacific. 

679.  Moby  Dick  (1851),  XIL  269.     1.  Sea-Life.     2.  Adventure.     3.  Magic. 

The  story  of  the  pursuit  of  a  white  whale  which  seemed  to  have  a 
supernatural  power  to  cause  disaster. 

SUSAN    WARNER    (1819-1886),    XIX.    420. 

680.  The  Wide,  Wide  WoRLD(1851),XVII.  191.     1.  Farm  Life.     2.  Ethics. 

3.  Racial  Characteristics.  An  orphan,  brought  up  in  the  arduous  life 
of  a  farm,  is  adopted  by  a  kind  family.  But  she  discovers  that  her 
parents  had  vnshed  her  to  join  relatives  in  Scotland.  Her  conscience 
compels  her  to  obey  this  vnsh.  She  is  well  received  by  the  Scots  people, 
but,  prejudiced  against  America,  they  strive  to  wean  her  from  her  old 
friends.  Her  adopted  brother  comes  to  visit  her,  breaks  down  this 
prejudice,  and  marries  her  with  everybody's  approval. 

JOSIAH    GILBERT    HOLLAND    (1819-1881),    XIX.    268. 

681.  Sevenoaks  (1875),  X.  288.     1.  Crime  and  its  Detection.     2.  Invention. 

3.  Law.    A  capitalist  robs  an  invalid  inventor  of  his  patents,  and  has 


ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S    STORIES       8? 

him  sent  as  a  lunatic,  with  his  boy,  to  the  poorhouse.  A  woodsman 
rescues  them  and  hides  them  in  his  camp.  A  lawyer  on  his  vacation 
meets  them,  and  takes  up  the  inventor's  case,  and  prosecutes  the  capi- 
talist, cleverly  convicting  him  of  forgery. 

IK    MARVEL    [DONALD    G.    MITCHELL]    (183»-1908),    XIX.    320. 

682.  Doctor    Johns    (1866),    XII.    326.     1.  Religion.     2.  Character.     3. 

Youth.  A  Calvinistic  preacher  has  his  severe  theological  opinions 
modified  by  a  little  French  girl  who  comes  to  live  with  him. 

RICHARD    MALCOLM    JOHNSTON    (1822-1898),    XIX.    278. 

683.  Pearce  Amerson's  Will  (1898),  XI.  162.     1.  Law.     2.  Georgia  Life 

and  Character.  3.  Crime.  A  story  of  ante-bellum  days  in  Georgia, 
the  plot  of  which  centers  about  a  disputed  will,  which  is  found  to  be 
a  forgery. 

STLTANUS    COBB,    JR.    (1823-1887),    XIX.    96. 

684.  The  GUNMAKER  of  Moscow  (1860),  V.  1.     1.  Melodrama.     2.  History. 

A  melodramatic  love  romance  in  which  Peter  the  Great  is  introduced 
as  a  character. 

ELIZABETH    B.    STODDARD    (1823-1902),    XIX.    392. 

685.  The    Morgesons    (1862),    XVI.    123.     1.  Youth.     2.  Character.     A 

story  of  school-girl  life  and  love,  in  which  strong  characters  are  depicted 
in  contrasting  contest. 

GEORGE    WILLIAM    CURTIS    (1824-1892),    XIX.    109. 

686.  Trumps  (1856),  VI.  71.     1.  New  York  Society.     2.  Business.     3.  Poli- 

tics. 4.  Youth.  5.  Rascality.  Showing  how  traits  of  character 
indicated  in  youth,  display  themselves  in  manhood  and  womanhood. 
The  chief  character  is  that  of  a  crook  in  business  and  politics. 

BATARD    TAYLOR    (1825-1878),    XIX.    400. 

687.  John  Godfrey's  Fortunes  (1864),  XVI.   273.     1.  Journalism.    2. 

Authorship.  3.  Love.  4.  Autobiography.  A  semi-autobiographic 
sketch  of  a  journalistic  and  literary  career.  The  hero  saves  a  country 
girl  from  ruin ;  the  action  is  misrepresented  by  a  rival  to  his  sweetheart, 
who  thereupon  cuts  his  acquaintance.     All  is  made  right  in  the  end. 

MARIA    SUSANNA    CUMMINS    (1827-1866),    XIX.    108. 

688.  The   Lamplighter    (1854),    VI.    60.     1.  Youth.     2.  Melodrama.     3. 

Love.  A  lamplighter  adopts  a  girl,  a  waif,  and  educates  her  for  a  teacher. 
She  has  many  thrilUng  and  amazing  experiences,  is  the  heroine  of  a  fire 
at  sea,  discovers  her  father,  and  is  united  at  last  to  her  childhood's 
lover. 


88       ANALYSIS   OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES 

J.    T.    TROWBRIDGE    (1827-  ),    XIX.    410. 

689.  Neighbor  Jackwood  (1857),  XVII.  63.  i.  Slavery.  2.  Love.  A  V«r- 
mont  farmer  hides  a  fugitive  quadroon  slave  girl  from  her  pursuers,  and 
protects  her  from  a  libertine,  and  assists  her  love  affair  Vfiih  a  young 
man  whose  mother  is  bitterly  opposed  to  the  match. 

590.  CuDjo's  Cave  (1863),  XVII.  75.  1.  Slavery.  2.  History.  A  romance 
of  the  Civil  War.  Outrages  of  the  Tennessee  secessionists  upon  Union 
men  are  described.  The  latter  take  refuge  in  a  cave  discovered  and 
defended  by  negroes,  and  finally  escape  to  the  North. 

LEW    WALLACE    (1827-1905),    XIX.    416. 

691.  Ben  HuR(  1880),  XVII.  157.     1.  Religion.     2.  History.     3.  Adventure- 

4.  Horse  Racing.  A  tale  of  the  Christ,  treating  of  the  conflict  between 
Rome  and  Jewry  in  general,  and  of  one  Roman  and  a  Jew  (the  hero), 
who  becomes  a  Christian,  in  particular.  The  Jew's  victory  over  the 
Roman  in  a  chariot  race  is  described.  Jesus  cures  the  hero's  mother 
and  sister  of  leprosy. 

CHARLES    DUDLEY    WARNER    (1829-1900),    XIX.    419. 

692.  The  Golden  House  (1894),  XVII.  181.     1.  Character.     2.  Marriage. 

3.  Social  Reform.  A  picture  of  high  life  in  New  York;  of  money- 
grubbing  husbands,  and  wives  who  make  fads  of  improving  the  condi- 
tion of  the  poor,  patronizing  art,  etc.,  but  who  sacrifice  these  causes  for 
their  own  selfish  pleasure.  The  title  refers  to  the  golden  house  of  Nero, 
a  pleasure  palace  blazing  with  gold  and  gems. 

MARION    HABLAND    [TEBHUNE]    (1831-  ),    XIX.    846. 

693.  Alone  (1853),  X.   54.     1.  Youth.     2.  Religion.    3.  Ethics.     4.  Love. 

The  story  of  relations  of  love  between  members  of  a  group  of  young 
people,  in  which  the  obligations  of  religion  and  morality  are  emphasized. 

REBECCA    HARDING    DAVIS    (1831-  ),    XIX.    112. 

694.  Waiting  for  the  Verdict  (1867),  VI.  204.     1.  The  Negro.     2.  His- 

tory. 3.  Heroism.  A  story  of  the  Civil  War.  A  mulatto  doctor,  who 
is  thought  to  be  white,  renounces  the  love  of  a  white  girl,  and  gives  up 
his  high  position  in  his  profession,  to  work  among  the  negroes.  While 
thus  engaged  he  is  assassinated. 

JANE    GOODWIN    AUSTIN    (1831-1894),    XIX.    22. 

695.  A    Nameless    Nobleman    (1881),    II.    1.     1.  Love.     2.  Royalty.     A 

French  nobleman,  deceived  by  his  sweetheart  and  disgusted  with  the 
intrigues  of  the  court  (of  Louis  XIV.),  departs  for  Canada,  and  is  ship- 
wrecked on  the  New  England  coast,  where  he  is  succored  by  a  young 
Quakeress,  whom  he  marries  under  an  assumed  name.  He  refuses  to 
return  to  France  to  his  repentent  French  sweetheart,  and  the  rank 
awaiting  him  there.. 


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HSXEN    HUNT    JACKSON    (1831-18M).    XIX.    270. 

696.  Ramona  (1884),  XI.  73.     1.  North  American  Indian  Life  and  Character- 

2.  Pathos.  A  pathetic  tale  of  the  ill-treatment  by  the  whites  of  Indians 
in   southern   California. 

AMEX.IA    EDITH    BARR    (EINGLAND,  1831-  ).    XIX.    36. 

697.  A  Bow  OF  Orange  Ribbon:  A  Romance  of  New  York  (1886),  II. 

308.  1.  History.  2.  Love.  3.  Racial  Antipathy.  The  romance  of 
a  Knickerbocker  girl  in  colonial  times,  and  her  English  sweetheart, 
who  is  objected  to  by  the  girl's  parents. 

LOUISA    M.    ALCOTT    (1832-1888),    XIX.    9. 

698.  Moods  (1864),  I.  152.     1.  Character.     2.  Love.     A  woman  of  varying 

moods  allows  remembrance  of  an  early  love  to  come  between  herself 
and  husband. 

699.  Little  Women  (1868),  1.   142.     1.  Youth.     2.  Home  Life.     3.  Love. 

4.  Autobiography.  A  semi-autobiographical  story  of  four  sisters,  their 
parents,  and  boy  friends. 

frank  k.  stockton  (1834-1902),  xix.  392. 

600.  The  Casting  Away  of  Mrs.  Lecks  and  Mks.  Aleshine:   The  Du- 

SANTES  (1886-1888),  XVI.  112.  1.  Humor.  2.  Character.  3. 
Adventure.  A  party  of  Americans  are  wrecked  on  a  Pacific  island 
containing  a  summer  residence,  whose  owners  are  away.  Two  rural 
widows  in  the  party  accept  the  situation  in  a  matter-of-fact  way,  and 
run  the  place  as  a  boarding  house.  They  aid  a  young  man  in  his  love 
affair  with  the  daughter  of  a  selfish  missionary,  and  defeat  the  mis- 
sionary's designs  upon  the  "board  money"  by  tracing  the  owners,  and, 
after  various  adventures,  finding  them. 

HARRIET    PRESCOTT    SPOFFORD    (1835-  ),    XIX.    383. 

601.  AZARIAN  (1864),  XV.  388.     1.  Art.      2.  Medicine.     3.  The  Theater. 

4.  Music.  5.  Love.  A  girl,  an  artist,  is  compelled  by  her  lover, 
a  physician  who  is  a  wonderful  musician,  to  choose  between  him  and 
her  friend,  an  actress.  She  chooses  the  physician.  He  wounds  her 
by  his  selfishness,  and,  finding  that  he  requires  her  only  as  a  plaything, 
she  seeks  out  the  actress,  and  lives  vwth  her,  happy  in  her  career  and 
her  love  of  two  orphan  boys  she  has  adopted. 
,502.  The  Thief  in  the  Night  (1872),  XV.  398.  1.  Medicine.  2.  Mar- 
'  riage.     3.  Ethics.     4.  Panama    Canal.     A    man    discovers    a    letter 

written  by  his  wife  to  his  friend  and  guest,  revealing  her  love  and 
begging  him  to  go  away.  The  husband  opens  his  veins  to  leave  the  lovers 
free  to  marry.  She  then  discovers  that  she  really  loves  her  husband, 
and  by  transfusion  of  blood  from  her  veins,  restores  him  to  life  and 
happiness.  Incidentally,  a  ship  canal  across  the  Isthmus  of  Panama 
is  proposed. 


90        ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES 

THOMAS    BAIL.ET    ALDRICH    (183&-1907),    XIX.    10. 

603.  The  Story  of  a  Bad  Boy  (1869),  I.  153.     1.  Youth.     2.  Humor.     A 

largely  autobiographical  story  of  boyish  pranks. 

604.  The   Stillwater   Tragedy   (1880),   I.    162.     1.  Crime.    2.  Labor. 

3.  Love.  A  story,  founded  on  fact,  of  a  murder  resulting  from  labor 
troubles,  of  a  false  accusation,  of  the  detection  of  the  real  criminal, 
and  of  the  loyalty  of  the  accused  man's  sweetheart. 

EDWARD    EGGLESTON    (1837-1902),    XIX.    167. 

605.  The    Ciecuit    Rider    (1874),    VIII.    153.     1.  Religion.     2.  Pioneer 

Life  and  Character.  3.  Love.  4.  Gambling.  A  story  of  p'^-aeer 
days  in  Ohio.  A  yoimg  man,  converted  at  a  rehgious  revival,  oecomes 
an  itinerant  preacher,  which  leads  to  trouble  in  his  love  affair,  first  with 
the  girl,  and  then  with  the  girl's  father.  There  is  further  complication 
owing  to  the  acts  of  an  elder  brother,  who  has  become  a  gambler  and 
highwayman.  But  the  girl  is  also  converted,  her  father  relents,  and 
the  man's  brother  repents,  and  all  ends  well. 

WUXIAM    DEAN    HOWEIXS    (1837-  ),    XIX.    263. 

606.  A    Modern    Instance    (1883),    X.    356.     1.  Character.     2.  Ethics. 

3.  Journalism.  4.  Politics.  The  story  of  a  noble  woman  married 
to  a  rascally  newspaper  man,  and  beloved  by  a  good  man,  to  whom  the 
husband  is  perfectly  willing  to  resign  her.  The  presidential  campaign 
of  Hayes  and  Tilden  is  referred  to. 

607.  The  Rise  of  Silas  Lapham  (1884),  X.  367.     1.  Ethics.     2.  Character. 

3.  Love.  4.  Business.  A  scion  of  an  aristocratic  Boston  family 
becomes  intimate  with  a  "new  rich"  family  of  a  paint  manufacturer. 
Beloved  by  each  of  the  two  daughters,  the  younger  and  prettier, 
who  is  a  spoiled  child,  assumes  that  she  is  to  have  him.  The  elder 
tries  to  sacrifice  herself,  but  the  young  man  will  not  have  it,  for  he  loves 
the  higher  mind  and  soul  of  the  elder  girl.  The  younger  girl  rises  nobly 
to  bear  the  blow.  Then  the  father  meets  business  reverses,  which  he 
refuses  to  avert  by  dishonorable  means,  in  a  similar  heroic  spirit. 

MART    MAPES    DODGE    (1838-1005),    XIX.    157. 

608.  Hans  Brinker:  or.  The  Silver  Skates  (1865),  VII.  259.     1.  Youth, 

2.  Skating.     3.  Dutch  Life  and  Customs.     Two  poor  children  of  anl 
afflicted  father,  by  their  fortitude  and  self  sacrifice,  win  the  love  and^ 
esteem  of  their  comrades,  and  restore  their  father  to  health  and  sanity. 
Dutch  customs  and  sport,  especially  skating,  are  described. 

ALBION    W.    TOURGEE    (1838-1905),    XIX.    406. 

609.  A  Fool's  Errand  (1880),  XVI.  490.     1.  History.     2.  Politics.    Thej 

experiences  of  a  "carpet-bagger"  and  his  family  in  the  days  of  Recoi^^ 
struction. 


ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES       91 

JOHN    HAT      (1838-1905).    XIX.    252. 

610.  The  Breadwinners  (1883),  X.   192.     1.  Labor.    2.  Crime  and  its 

Detection.  3.  Love.  Anemployer  is  compromised  by  a  bold  working- 
girl  who  is  in  love  with  him.  His  sweetheart  thereupon  repulses  him. 
A  strike  arises  among  his  workmen.  His  sweetheart  fears  for  his  safety, 
and,  watching  him,  is  able  to  save  him  from  a  murderous  assault,  and, 
by  her  testimony,  e.xonerates  an  innocent  employee  upon  whom 
the  guilty  man  has  attempted  to  fasten  the  crime. 

F.    HOPKINSON    SMITH    (1838-  ),    XIX.    378. 

611.  Colonel  Carter  of  Cartersville  (1891),  XV.  299.     1.  Character- 

2.  Humor.  3.  Business.  A  character  study  of  an  old  Virginian,  a 
visionary  railroad  promoter  who  is  supported  and  saved  from  financial 
wreck  by  his  aunt,  though  he  imagines  that  it  is  he  who  is  the  protector 
and  benefactor. 

BRET    HARTE    (1839-1902),    XIX.    248, 

612.  Gabriel  Conroy  (1876),  X.  88.     1.  Western  Life.     2.  Melodrama. 

3.  Mining.  4.  Gambling.  A  tale  of  wild  adventures  in  the  mining 
regions  of  the  West,  in  which  the  passions  of  love,  revenge,  gambling, 
etc.,  have  free  play. 

GEORGE    CART    EGGLESTON    (1839-  ).    XIX.    168. 

613.  Dorothy    South    (1902),   VIII.    162.     1.  History.     2.  Virginia   Life 

and  Character.  3.  Love.  4.  Music.  5.  Medicine.  A  woman  who 
is  a  musical  genius  forsakes  her  husband  and  child  for  the  stage.  She 
loses  her  beauty  and  becomes  very  poor.  Her  daughter  at  home  in 
Virginia  chooses  her  guardian,  a  doctor  from  the  North,  who  teaches 
her  chemistry.  Going  to  Europe  to  pursue  the  study,  she  meets  her 
mother,  who  reveals  herself  to  her.  The  Civil  War  breaks  out.  Mother 
and  daughter  return  home,  the  one  to  be  a  nurse,  the  other  to  aid  her 
giiardian  in  his  medical  work.  But  it  is  as  his  wife  and  not  as  his  ward 
that  she  does  it. 

JAMES  M.  LUDLOW  (1841-         ),  XIX.  299. 

614.  The  Captain  OF  THE  Janizaries  (1886),  XII.  64.     1.  History.    2.  Ad- 

venture. The  romance  of  Scanderbeg,  an  Albanian  rebel  against 
Turkish  rule  at  the  time  of  the  capture  of  Constantinople  by  the  Turks 
(1453). 

ELLEN    OLNET    KIRK    (1842-  ),    XIX.    285. 

616.  The  Story  of  Margaret  Kent  (1866),  XI.  337.  1.  Marriage.  2. 
Love.  3.  Ethics.  The  wife  of  a  worthless  man,  whom  she  supports, 
falls  in  love  with  a  noble  man,  but  resists  the  temptation  to  get  a  divorce, 
and  remains  faithful  to  him  to  his  death. 


92       ANALYSIS   OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES 

JOHN  HABBERTON  (1842-    ),  XIX.  238. 

616.  Helen's  Babies  (1876),  IX.  310.     1.  Youth.     2.  Humor.     3.  Love. 

One  of  two  impish  brothers  involve  their  bashful  bachelor  uncle  in 
an  awkward  situation  with  the  young  lady  he  adores,  and  then  by  his 
artlessness  precipitates  a  declaration  and  acceptance  of  love. 

CHRISTINE   CHAPLIN    BRUSH    (1843-1892),    XIX,    69. 

617.  The  Colonel's  Opera-Cloak  (1879),  III.  315.     1.  Humor.     2.  Char- 

acter. The  story  of  a  poor  aristocratic  Southern  family,  and  the 
multifarious  uses  to  which  the  father's  opera-cloak  was  put. 

EDWIN   L.ASSETTER    BTNNER    (1842-1893),    XIX.    75. 

618.  Agnes  Surriage  (1886),  IV.  231.     1.  Love.     2.  History.     An  English 

gentleman,  appointed  to  office  in  the  colony  of  Massachusetts,  falls  in 
love  with  a  beautiful  servant  girl,  and  makes  her  his  mistress.  He 
succeeds  to  a  title,  and  returns  to  England,  taking  his  wife  with  him. 
His  family  fails  to  receive  her,  and  he  accepts  office  in  Portugal.  In 
the  earthquake  at  Lisbon  he  is  saved  from  death  by  her,  and  a  sailor, 
her  first  sweetheart.     The  gentleman  marries  her. 

HENRT    JAMES    (1843-  ),    XIX.    273. 

619.  Daisy  Miller  (1878),  XI.  96.     1.  Character.     2.  Travel.     3.  Society. 

4.  Love.  A  character  study  of  an  American  girl  travelling  in  Switzer- 
land and  Italy.  She  is  a  coquette,  and  yet  so  innocent  that  she  breaks 
all  European  conventions  ruling  the  relations  of  the  sexes,  and  com- 
promises herself.  She  dies,  leaving  a  compatriot  who  had  been  her 
severest  censor  in  doubt  whether  he  had  loved  her  or  not. 

620.  The  Portrait  OF  a  Lady  (1881),  XL  108.     1.  Character.     2.  Society. 

3.  Ethics.  An  American  heiress  refuses  the  suit  of  a  compatriot,  and 
marries  a  shallow  dilettante,  an  Englishman  living  in  Italy.  She 
bravely  tries  to  prevent  her  step-daughter  making  a  similar  mistake; 
she  is  unsuccessful  in  this,  but  is  rewarded  by  the  approval  of  a  dying 
man,  who  had  reproached  her  for  her  loveless  marriage. 

GEORGE    WASHINGTON    CABLE    (1844-  ),    XIX.    76. 

621.  The  Grandissimes:    A   Story    of  Creole  Life  (1880),  IV.  241. 

1.  Creole  Life.  2.  Psychology.  3.  History.  A  story  of  a  family 
in  New  Orleans  at  the  time  of  the  Louisiana  purchase.  Creole  society 
is  vividly  presented,  and  the  character  of  its  individual  members  clearly 
portrayed. 

ELIZABETH    STUART    PHELPS    [MRS.    WARD]    (1844-  ), 

XIX.    339. 

622.  Friends:     A    Duet    (1881),    XIII.    212.     1.  Friendship.     2.  Love. 

3.  Temperance.  A  widow,  striving  to  be  true  to  the  memory  of  her 
husband,  fights  off  a  friend  who  would  marry  her,  and  devotes  herself 


ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES       93 

to  the  reform  of  a  dipsomaniac,  who  proves  incurable.  When  the 
suitor  is  about  to  leave  her,  she  realizes  that  her  feeling  for  him  is 
more  tender  than  friendship,  and  recalls  him. 

HKNBT    FRANCIS    KEENAN    (1845-  ),    XIX.    2S0. 

623.  The     Money-Makers     (1885),     XI.      195.     1.  Labor.     2.  Finance. 

3.  Politics.  A  tale  of  the  power  for  evil  of  corporate  wealth,  its  man- 
ipulation of  finance,  control  of  the  press,  and  enmity  to  labor  unions. 
Cf.  "The  Breadwinners"  (610). 

JULIAN    HAWTHORNE    (1846-  ),      XIX.    360. 

624.  Archibald  Malmaison  (1878),  X.  120.     1.  Character.     2.  Tragedy. 

The  hero  receives  psychic  shocks  at  intervals  in  his  life,  which  throw 
him  back  to  the  person  he  was  at  the  time  of  the  previous  shock. 
On  one  relapse  his  sweetheart  mysteriously  disappears,  and  it  is  not 
until  the  following  shock  (and  the  last),  that  he  comes  to  the  knowledge 
that  many  years  before  he  had  locked  her  in  a  chamber  of  whose  exis- 
tence he  and  she  alone  knew. 

ANNA    KATHERINE    GREEN    [MRS.    ROHLFS]    (1846-  ). 

XIX.    333. 

626.  The  Leavenworth  Case  (1878),  IX.  239.  1.  Detection  of  Crime. 
2.  Love.  The  discovery  of  the  perpetrator  of  a  murder,  chiefly  by 
playing  upon  the  criminal's  love  for  a  woman. 

MRS.    BURTON    HARRISON    (1846-  ),    XIX.    248. 

626.  The    Anglomaniacs    (1890),    X.    78.     1.  Society.     2.  Love.     3.  In- 

trigue. A  rich  American  girl  is  separated  from  her  American  lover 
by  intrigue,  and  driven  to  marry  a  titled  Englishman. 

BLANCHE    WILLIS    HOWARD    (1847-1898),    XIX.    862. 

627.  GUENN    (1882),    X.    345.     1.  Artist    Life    in    Brittany.     2.  Tragedy. 

A  Breton  peasant  girl  loves  the  artist  for  whom  she  poses  as  a  model. 
She  heroically  saves  his  masterpiece  from  destruction,  and,  when  she 
finds  he  has  a  sweetheart,  drowns  herself. 

MARY    HARTWELL   CATHERWOOD    (1847-1902),    XIX.    86. 

628.  Lazarre  (1901),  IV.  308.     1.  History.     2.  Love.     A  romance  of  the 

"Lost  Dauphin"  (Louis  XVII.),  who  is  supposed  to  have  escaped  from 
prison,  an  imbecile,  and  to  have  recovered  his  reason  in  America,  upon 
which  he  choses  the  love  of  a  plebeian  sweetheart  rather  than  a  throne. 

ARTHUR    SHERBURNE    HARDY    (1847-  ),    XIX.    244. 

629.  The    Wind    of    Destiny    (1886),    IX.    399.     1.  Love.     2.  Fate.     A 

young  girl  meets  the  same  unhappiness  in  love  that  befell  her  prototype 
in  the  former  generation. 


94       ANALYSIS   OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES 

630.  Passe  Rose  (1889),  IX.   409.     1.  Imagination.     2.  Love.     3.  History. 

A  romantic  idyl  of  the  time  of  Charlemagne  telling  the  love  of  a  madcap 
girl  and  a  gallant  youth. 

(HERE  MAY  FOLLOW  696.) 
FRANCES   COURTENAY    BAYLOR    (1848-  ),    XIX.    38. 

631.  On  Both  Sides  (1886),  II.  370.     1.  English  and  American  Society. 

2.  Character.  3.  Humor.  A  story  of  Americans  living  in  England, 
and  Englishmen  travelling  in  the  United  States,  in  which  racial  customs 
and  characteristics  are  contrasted  with  lively  humor. 

WILLIAM    WALDORF    ASTOR    (1848-  ),    XIX.    18. 

632.  Sforza   (1889),   I.   352.     1.  History.     2.  Adventure.     A   romance   in 

which  there  figure  the  historical  characters  of  Ludovico  Sforza,  the 
great  Duke  of  Milan,  Caesar  Borgia,  and  the  Chevalier  Bayard.  The 
hero  is  a  nephew  of  the  Duke. 

JOEL   CHANDLER    HARRIS    (1848-1908),    XIX.    247. 

633.  Gabriel  Tolliver  (1902),  X.  66.     1.  Youth.     2.  PoHtics.     3.  Psy- 

chology. 4.  Love.  A  story  of  Reconstruction  days  in  the  South,  in 
which  youths  and  children  are  the  main  characters.  The  delineation 
of  the  characters  of  hero  and  heroine  is  the  marked  feature. 

FRANCES  HODGSON  BURNETT  (ENGLAND,  1849-    ), 
XIX,  72. 

634.  That  Lass  o'   Lowrie's   (1876),  IV.  185.     1.  Mining.     2.  Heroism. 

4.  Love.  A  "  pit  girl "  in  a  Lancashire  mine  saves  the  life  of  an  engi- 
neer by  her  heroism,  and  gains  his  love  by  her  devotion  and  her  study 
to  raise  herself  to  his  condition. 

635.  Little  Lord  Faxjntleroy  (1886),  IV.   195.     1.  Youth.     2.    Family 

Love.  3.  Benevolence.  4.  Humor.  An  American  boy  becomes 
heir  to  an  English  title  and  estate,  held  by  his  misanthropic  grand- 
father, and,  by  thinking  the  old  man  a  loving,  benevolent  person  and 
treating  him  as  such,  transforms  his  character  to  this  ideal.  The  love 
between  the  Uttle  fellow  and  his  self-sacrificing  mother  is  a  charming 
feature  in  the  story,  and  a  comedy  touch  is  given  it  by  the  character 
study  of  an  aristocracy-hating  grocer,  who  comes  to  own  a  shop  patron- 
ized by  nobility. 

636.  A  Lady   of    Quality    (1896),  IV.  205.     1.  Tragedy.     2.  Love.    3. 

Youth.  A  tomboy,  growing  up,  marries  an  old  lord,  for  social  position, 
and,  on  his  death,  a  young  one  for  love.  She  spurns  the  advances  of 
a  former  suitor,  and  U{x>n  his  pressing  his  attentions,  strikes  him  dead 
with  a  loaded  whip-handle.  Her  sister,  who  secretly  loves  the  mur- 
dered man,  aids  her  to  make  way  vrith  the  body. 

SARAH    ORNE    JTEWETT    (1849-  ),    XIX.    276. 

637.  A  Country  Doctor  (1884),  XI,   133.     1.  Medicine.     2.  Ethics.     3. 

Semi-Autobiography.     A  country  doctor  adopts  an  orphan  girl  and 


ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES       95 

makes  her  his  professional  companion.  She  refuses  a  suitor  whom 
she  could  love  if  she  would,  to  become  a  physician.  The  country 
doctor  is  a  portrait  of  the  author's  father,  and  the  scenes  depicted  arc 
of  her  youth,  in  and  near  Portsmouth,  N.  H. 

JAMES    LANE    AJLLEN    (1849-  ),      XIX.    13. 

638.  SxjMMER  IN  Arcady:   a  Tale  of  Nature  (1896),  I.  207.     1.  Youth. 

2.  Love.  An  idyl  of  Kentucky,  presenting  the  frank  amorousness  of 
a  lad  and  girl,  who  are  disciplined  by  the  church  for  dancing. 

639.  The  Choir  Invisible  (1897),  I.  216.     1.  Love.     2.  Pathos.     A  story 

of  pioneer  days  in  Kentucky.  The  hero  is  saved  by  the  influence  of 
a  noble  married  woman  from  entanglement  with  her  unworthy  niece, 
who  is  betrothed  to  another.  He  comes  to  love  the  aunt,  who  has  made 
a  loveless  marriage,  and  who  secretly  loves  him  in  return.  He  is  be- 
loved by  a  good  girl,  and  promises  to  marry  her,  telling  her  the  state 
of  his  heart.  Then  his  old  love  is  freed  by  the  death  of  her  husband, 
but  honor  keeps  both  from  breaking  the  heart  of  the  hero's  betrothed. 

CHKISTIAN    REID    [MRS.    FRANCES    FISHER    TIERNAN] 
(PRESENT    DAT),    XIX.    360. 

640.  Morton  House  (1871),  XIV.   1.     1.  Melodrama.     2.  Southern   Life. 

An  English  governess  in  a  Southern  family  (in  the  United  States) 
meets  with  many  misfortunes  through  her  connection  with  a  villain, 
which  are  succeeded,  however,  by  a  happy  marriage,  when  the  secret 
of  her  life  is  disclosed,  relieving  her  of  blame. 

ARLO    BATES    (1860-  ),    XIX.    38. 

641.  A  Wheel  of  Fire  (1885),  II.  348.     1.  Insanity.     2.  Love.     3.  Trag- 

edy. 4.  Psychology.  The  story  of  a  girl  who  inherits  insanity.  She 
refuses  to  marry  on  this  account,  is  over-persuaded  by  her  lover,  and 
goes  mad  on  the  day  set  for  her  wedding.  Her  state  of  mind  is  described 
in  detail. 

EDWARD    BEIX.AMY    (1850-1898),    XIX.    46. 

642.  Looking  Backw^ard  (1888),  III.  I.       1.  Social  Reform.     2.   Imagina- 

tion. A  story  of  the  world  regenerated  by  socialism — the  nationaliza- 
tion of  all  means  of  production. 

643.  The  Duke  of  Stockbridge  (1900),  III.  12.     1.  History.     A  romance 

dealing  with  Shay's  Rebellion. 

LAFCADIO    HEARN    (1860-1906),    XIX.    264. 

644.  YouMA  (1890),  X.   212.     1.  History.     2.  Character.     3.  Superstition. 

4.  Tragedy.  5.  Heroism.  A  romance  of  the  negro  insurrection  in 
Martinique,  in  which  the  character  of  a  Creole  negress,  a  nurse,  is 
presented — her  superstition,  her  loyalty  to  the  white  family  who  own 
her,  and  finally  her  heroic  death  with  a  child  whom  she  refused  to 
leave  in  a  burning  house. 


96       ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES 

RUTH    McENERT    STUART    (1850-  ),    XIX.    395. 

646.  Carlotta's  Intended  (1894),  XVI.  182.     1.  Italian  Life  and  Character. 

2.  Love.  3.  Renunciation.  A  crippled  Irish  shoemaker,  in  the  Italian 
quarter  of  New  Orleans  has  loved  an  Italian  girl  from  childhood. 
When  she  is  being  forced  into  unwelcome  marriage  with  a  rich  old 
Italian,  she  asks  the  shoemaker  to  marry  her.  They  become  engaged. 
Then  the  girl  meets  a  young  musician  and  loves  him.  But  she  is 
faithful  to  her  troth,  till  released  by  the  shoemaker  who  divines  the 
situation.  He  loses  his  life  by  attempting  to  rescue  a  kitten  from  the 
river. 

NATHAN    HASKELL.    DOLE    (186S-  ),    XIX.    168. 

646.  Not   Angels    Quite   (189.3),   VII.   269.     1.  Love.     2.  Marriage.     A 

study  of  love  and  marriage,  showing  how  two  engaged  couples  re- 
arranged their  pairing  in  accordance  with  temperamental  affinity. 

ROBERT    GRANT    (1863-  ),    XIX.    231. 

647.  Unleavened    Bread    (1900),    IX.    209.     1.  Character.     2.  Society. 

3.  Politics.  4.  Marriage.  5.  Ethics.  A  woman  who  desires  social 
success,  advances  by  the  divorce  of  one  husband,  whom  she  had  neg- 
lected, the  demise  of  another,  whom  she  had  driven  to  death,  and  the 
moral  disintegration  of  a  third,  which  she  had  caused  by  her  ambition, 
to  the  proud  position  of  wife  of  a  Senator. 

FRANCIS    MARION    CRAWFORD    (1854-1909),    XIX.    106. 

648.  Mr.  Isaacs  (1882),  VI.  20.     1.  Character.     2.  Philosophy.     3.  Anglo- 

Indian  Life.  4.  Love.  5.  History.  A  character  study  of  a  Persian 
in  an  Anglo-Indian  community.  He  exhibits  athletic  prowess  and 
bravery  in  war  (with  the  Afghans).  His  English  sweetheart  dies, 
and  he  is  comforted  by  a  religious  adept  of  Thibet  vfiih  the  thought 
that  they  will  be  reunited  in  a  subsequent  incarnation.  An  exposition 
of  Hindu  philosophy  is  presented. 

649.  A  Roman   Singer  (1883),  VI.   31.     1.  Italian   Life  and   Character. 

2.  Music.  3.  Love.  4.  Tragedy.  The  love  romance  of  an  Italian 
tenor  and  the  daughter  of  a  German  count,  whom  he  is  teaching  in- 
cognito. A  jealous  woman  reveals  his  secret  to  the  count,  and  then 
commits  suicide.  He  is  accused  of  the  murder,  but  is  exonerated. 
His  beloved  has  been  spirited  away,  but  she  steals  away  from  the  man 
chosen  for  her  husband,  and  rejoins  the  tenor. 

F.    J.    STIMSON    (1865-  ),    XIX.    391. 

650.  King    Noanett    (1896),    XVI.    102.     1.  History.     2.  Adventure.     3. 

Self-Sacrifice.  An  English  Royalist,  fleeing  in  disguise  with  his  daugh- 
ter from  the  commonwealth,  becomes  an  Indian  chief  in  New  England. 
They  are  followed  by  two  lovers  of  the  daughter,  each  ignorant  of  the 
Other's  affection.     These  become  friends.     They  fight  side  by  side  in 


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King  Philip's  war,  whose  ally  the  outlawed  Englishman  has  become. 
Discovering  that  the  object  of  his  friend's  quest  is  that  of  his  own,  one 
of  the  men  ehminates  himself  by  throwing  away  his  life. 

SARAH  PRATT  Mcl.EAN  GREENE  (1860        ),  XIX.   234. 

651.  CapeCodFolks(1881),  IX.  258.     1.  New  England  Life  and  Character. 

2.  Love.  3.  Tragedy.  4.  Humor.  The  experiences  of  a  school 
ma'am  on  Cape  Cod,  the  quaint  folk  of  which  are  described.  The 
schoolma'am  is  beloved  by  a  pupil,  who  dies  saving  the  life  of  the  be- 
trayer of  a  trusting  girl. 

HAROLD    FREDERIC    (1866-1898),    XIX.    194. 

652.  The  Damnation  of  Theron  Ware  (1896),  IX.  37.     1.  Religion.     2. 

Character.  A  self-seeking  ignorant  country  minister  is  taken  up,  for 
motives  of  kindness,  by  cultured  people,  one  of  whom  is  a  lady  whom 
he  egotistically  thinks  is  in  love  with  him.  He  proves  himself  such 
a  cad  that  they  drop  him.  He  moves  West  with  his  neglected  wife  with 
the  intention  of  going  into  real  estate  and  politics.  The  "business" 
of  a  revivalist  is  described. 

CHARLES    MAJOR    (1856-  ),    XIX.    304. 

663.  Dorothy  Vernon  of  Haddon  Hall  (1902),  XII.  149.     1.  History. 

2.  Love.  A  love  romance  in  which  Queen  Ehzabeth  and  her  courtiers 
and  Mary  Queen  of  Scots  are  important  figures. 

MARGARETTA    DELAND    (1867-  ),    XIX.    122. 

664.  The  Awakening  of  Helena  Ritchie  (1906),  VI.  290.     1.  Character. 

2.  Morality.  3.  Adoption.  A  deserted  wife  has  a  lover  who  visits 
her  in  a  small  town,  in  the  guise  of  a  brother.  She  adopts  an  orphan 
boy,  whom  she  comes  greatly  to  love.  This  makes  her  a  better  woman. 
Her  husband  dies.  She  reveals  her  character  to  a  young  man  of 
the  neighborhood,  who  urges  her  to  marry  him;  refused,  he  commits 
suicide.  She  then  demands  that  her  lover  marry  her.  He  wishes  to 
continue  the  same  life  elsewhere.  For  the  adopted  boy's  sake  she 
refuses,  and  decides  to  go  away  alone  leaving  him  in  an  old  doctor's 
hands.  But  when  she  goes  she  finds  the  doctor  has  smuggled  the  boy 
along  with  her. 

DUFFIELD    OSBORNE    (1868-  ),    XIX.   333. 

I'l  665.  The  Lion's  Brood  (1901),  XIII.  127.     1.  History.     2.  Love.     A  love 
romance  of  the  days  of  the  Roman  struggle  against  Hannibal. 

WILL    N.    HARBEN    (1858-  ),    XIX.    243. 

666.  Abner  Daniel  (1902),  IX.  381.     1.  Georgian  Character.     2.  Business. 

3.  Humor.  A  North  Georgian  farmer  enters  into  a  land  speculation 
in  which  he  is  saved  from  ruin  at  the  hands  of  rascals  by  the  help  of 
a  shrewd,  humorous  ne'er-do-well. 


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98       ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S   STORIES 

IRYING    BACHEIXER    (18S9-  ),    XIX.    24. 

667.  Eben  Holden  (1900),  II.  24.  1.  Character,  2.  Youth.  3.  History. 
4.  Journalism.  A  story  in  autobiographical  form  of  a  journalist,  who, 
as  boy  and  man,  had  as  friend  a  great-hearted  countryman.  Horace 
Greeley  is  introduced  as  a  character,  and  the  battle  of  Bull  Run  forms 
one  of  the  scenes. 

MOLLT    ELLIOT    SEAWELL    (1860-  ),    XIX.   369. 

658.  Papa    Bouchard    (1901),   XV.    188.     1.  Comedy.     2.  Character.     A 

sketch  of  French  Life  and  character  in  which  the  chief  personage,  a 
paterfamilias,  is  involved  in  comical  complications. 

WOLCOTT    BALESTIEB    (1861-1891),    XIX.    25. 

659.  Benefits  Forgot  (1892),  II.  35.     1.  Western  American  Life.     2.  I^ve. 

3.  Family  Relations.  4.  Mining.  5.  Rascality.  Troubles  in  busi- 
ness and  love  of  a  generous,  hot-headed  father  and  a  good  son,  and  a 
bad  son.     The  scene  is  in  the  mining  district  of  Colorado. 

HENRT    HARLAND    (1861-1905),    XIX.    245. 

660.  The  Cardinal's  Snuff-Box  (1900),  X.  43.     1.  Love.    2.  Authorship. 

A  cardinal  makes  use  of  his  snuff-box  as  a  means  of  reuniting  lovers, 
who  have  had  a  misunderstanding  due  to  the  man's  being  a  novelist 
»nd  presumably  in  love  with  the  original  of  his  heroine. 

MART    E.    WILKINS-FREEMAN    (1862-  ),    XIX.    424. 

661.  Jane    Field    (1892),  XVII.    248.     1.  Character.     2.  Ethics.     3.  Re- 

ligion. A  poor  New  England  woman,  a  religious  fanatic,  is  mistaken 
for  another,  and,  suppressing  the  truth,  receives  an  inheritance.  At 
last  remorse  of  conscience  causes  her  to  reveal  the  deception,  and  to  the 
end  of  life  she  remains  a  monomaniac,  repeating  her  confession  to 
every  stranger  she  meets. 

EDITH    WHARTON    (1862-  ).      XIX.    423. 

662    The   House  of  Mirth   (1905),  XVII.  221.     1.  New  York  Society. 

2.  Character.  3.  Pathos.  A  fortune-hunting  woman  in  the  Four 
Hundred  fails  in  all  her  schemes  owing  to  her  weakness  at  the  critical 
moment,  which  is  due  to  her  love  for  a  comparatively  poor  man.  So, 
while  she  dies  in  want  and  social  disgrace,  she  saves  her  soul. 

AMELIE    RITES    [PRINCESS    TROUBETZKOT]    (1863-  ), 

XIX.    353. 

663.  The  Quick  or  the  Dead  (1888),  XIV.  88.     1.  Ethics.     2.  Love. 

3.  Marriage.  The  spell  of  a  dead  love  overcomes  the  passion  of  9 
living  one. 


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JOHN    JACOB    ASTOB    (1884-  ),    XIX.    18. 

664.  A  JouKNEY  IN  Other  Worlds  (1894),  I.  340.  1.  Science.  2.  Imagi- 
nation. 3.  Adventure.  Some  Americans,  utilizing  the  apergy  of 
the  earth,  take  a  trip  in  a  projectile  to  Jupiter  and  Saturn,  where  they 
observe  strange  phases  of  life  and  nature. 

BIOHARD    HARDING    DATIS    (1861-        ),    XIX.    113. 

666.  Soldiers  of  Fortune  (1899),  VI.  215.  1.  South  American  Life. 
2.  Adventure.  3.  Love.  4.  Mining.  An  American  party  is  in- 
volved in  a  South  American  revolution.  A  mining  engineer  and  a 
yachtsman  are  rivals  for  the  hand  of  a  society  belle,  but  the  revolution 
brings  out  the  finer  character  of  her  younger  sister,  and  the  engineer 
transfers  his  devotion  to  her. 

PAUI.   LEICESTER    FORD    (1865-1902),    XIX.    190. 

666.  The   Honorable   Peter    Stirling    (1894),   VIII.    411.     1.  Politics. 

2.  Labor.  3.  Social  Reform.  4.  Character.  A  study  of  the  char- 
acter of  a  politician,  based  on  Grover  Cleveland's.  He  becomes  boss 
of  the  "machine"  by  earnestly  furthering  betterment  of  the  condition 
of  the  poor.  As  a  miUtia  captain,  he  risks  his  life  in  quelling  a  strike, 
and  wins  a  wife  by  his  heroism. 

ROBERT    WILLIAM    CHAMBERS    (1865-  ),    XIX.    87. 

667.  Ashes    of    Empire    (1899),    IV.    334.     1.  History.     2.  Joumahsm. 

3.  Love.  The  love  story  of  two  American  journalists  and  two  Paris- 
iennes  during  the  siege  of  Paris. 

GEORGE    BARB    McCUTCHEON    (1866-  ),    XIX.    301. 

668.  Graustark  (1900),  XII.   96.     1.  Adventure.     2.  Love.     3.  Heroism. 

A  young  American  meets  with  strange  adventures  in  a  mythical  Balkan 
kingdom,  winning  the  hand  of  a  princess,  by  his  giving  himself  up  to 
death,  though  innocent  of  the  murder  with  which  he  is  charged,  for  the 
honor  of  the  kingdom. 

BOOTH    TARKINGTON    (1869-        ),    XIX.    399. 

669.  The   Gentleman  from   Indiana   (1899),   XVI.   250.     1.  Character. 

2.  Journalism.  3.  Politics.  4.  Love.  A  story  of  Indiana  life  and 
character.  A  young  editor  has  incurred  the  enmity  of  "whitecaps," 
and  these  assault  him,  leaving  him  senseless.  During  his  slow  recovery, 
a  girl  who  loves  him  edits  the  paper  and  works  up  a  congressional  nom- 
ination for  him,  of  all  of  which  he  is  ignorant. 

MART    JOHNSTON    (1870-  ),    XIX.    277. 

670.  To  Have  and  to  Hold  (1890),  XI.  149.     1.  History.     2.  Melodrama. 

A  melodramatic  tale  of  the  settlement  of  Virginia,  dealing  with  the 
hero's  deeds  of  derring-do  among  Indians  and  pirates,  with  a  titled 
villain,   etr. 


loo      ANALYSIS    OF   THE    WORLD'S    STORIES 

FRANK    NOBRIS    (1870-1902),    XIX.    328. 

671.  The  Pit    (1902),    XIII.   46.     1.  Business.     2.  Love.     A    romance  of 

love,  and  a  close  approach  to  a  tragedy  of  marriage  centering  about 
the  vi'heat  pit  in  Chicago.  Love  comes  back  v^rhen  its  rival,  money- 
making,  disappears. 

WINSTON    CHUBCHIIX    (1871-  ),    XIX.    94. 

672.  Richard    Carvel    (1899),    IV.    400.     1.  History.     2.  Adventure.     3. 

Love.  A  romance  of  American  and  English  history  preceding  and 
during  the  Revolution.  The  hero  in  his  travels  meets  distinguished 
men  such  as  John  Paul  [Jones],  Charles  Fox,  Horace  Walpole,  etc. 
He  is  victorious  in  love  as  in  war,  discomfitting  a  villainous  rival. 

ELLEN    GLASGOW    (1874-  ),    XIX.    208. 

673.  The  Deliverance  (1904),  IX.  126.     1.  Virginian  Life.     2.  Character. 

3.  Crime  and  its  Penalty.  4.  Ethics.  A  scion  of  an  old  Virginian 
family  plots  to  ruin  the  family  of  the  man  who  robbed  him  of  his  estate. 
He  leads  the  son  astray,  until  he  becomes  a  parricide.  But  in  the  mean- 
time he  has  learned  to  love  the  daughter,  who  desires  to  make  restitution. 
Therefore,  he  gives  himself  up  for  the  murder  of  the  old  man,  of  which 
he  feels  himself  morally  guilty. 

JACK    LONDON    (1870-  ),    XIX.    295. 

674.  The    Sea-Wolf    (1903),    XII.    29.     1.  Sea-Life.     2.  Character.     3. 

Adventure.  4.  Love.  A  ship-captain,  fierce  and  tyrannical,  op- 
presses his  crew  and  plans  to  make  a  girl,  picked  up  from  a  wreck,  his 
own.  He  is  thwarted  by  a  young  sailor  who  escapes  with  the  girl  and 
marries  her. 

SWITZERLAND 

(HERE  MAY  FOLLOW  9.) 
JOHANN    WYSS    (1781-1830),    XIX.    426. 

675.  The    Swiss    Family    Robinson  (1813),    XVII.    268.     1.  Adventure. 

2.  Natural  History.  A  Swiss  family  are  wrecked  on  a  Pacific  island. 
By  their  ingenuity  they  utilize  the  plants  and  animals  of  the  island, 
developing  a  model  colony. 

(HERE  MAY  FOLLOW  94.) 

RUSSIA 

ALEXANDER    PUSHKIN    (1799-1837).    XIX.    346. 

676.  The  Captain's  Daughter  (1836),  XIII.  289.     1.  History,     2.  Army 

Life.  The  hero  is  a  Russian  soldier  who  is  condemned  as  a  spy  of 
the  pretender  PoggatchofF,  but  saved  by  Catherine  II.,  by  the  plea  of 
his   sweetheart. 

NIKOLAI    GOGOL    (1809-1862),    XIX.    226. 

677.  Dead     Souls     (1842),     IX.  170.     1.  Russian     Character.     2.  Satire. 


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ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S    STORIES      loi 

A  satire  upon  Russian  politics  and  society,  in  which  the  rank  of  a  per- 
son was  conditioned  by  the  number  of  serfs,  or  "souls"  owned  by  him. 
These  "souls"  are  counted  from  the  previous  census,  serfs  dead  since 
that  time  being  reckoned  as  living.  The  hero  in  order  to  get  political 
preferment  goes  over  the  country  buying  title  to  these  "dead  souls." 
He  meets  with  every  type  of  Russian  character,  and  each  is  minutely 
described.  But  the  government  gets  after  liim,  and,  after  bitter  ex- 
periences with  courts  and  prisons,  he  runs  away  a  physical  and  financial 
wreck. 

IVAN    TURGENIEV    (1818-1883),    XIX.    411, 

678.  Fathers    and    Sons    (1862),    XVII.    85.     1.  Character.     2.  Politics. 

3.  Nihilism.  The  beginning  of  the  clash  between  the  conservative 
elder  generation  of  Russians,  and  the  radical  younger  generation  is 
depicted,  individual  types  of  each  class  being  presented. 

679.  Smoke    (1867),    XVII.    96.     1.  Character.     2.  Politics.     3.  Nihilism. 

The  second  stage  of  the  revolutionary  ferment  in  Russia,  where  theory 
is  concentrating  into  a  program  of  action.  The  author  attacks  the 
charlatans  among  the  advanced  thinkers. 

LTOF    TOLSTOY    (1828-  ),    XIX.    405. 

680.  War  and  Peace  (1865),  XVI.  433.     1.  History.     2.  Russian  Life  and 

Character.  3.  Philosophy.  A  romance  of  all  phases  of  Russian 
life  and  character  in  the  first  quarter  of  the  nineteenth  century.  Na- 
poleon I.,  Alexander  I.,  and  their  generals  appear  in  the  story,  which 
in  purpose  is  philosophic  history  rather  than  fiction. 

681.  Anna    Karenina    (1878),    XVI.    448.     1.  Marriage.     2.  Ethics.     3. 

Tragedy.  The  heroine  is  a  married  woman  who  has  a  lover.  Though 
discovered  by  the  husband  and  forgiven  by  him,  she  elopes  with  the 
lover.     Seeing  that  he  is  tiring  of  her,  she  kills  herself. 

682.  The  Kreutzer  Sonata  (1890),  XVI.  459.     1.  Marriage.     2.  Music. 

3.  Tragedy.  A  man  and  wife  nag  each  other  into  mutual  hatred. 
She  meets  a  violinist,  and  their  common  love  for  music  draws  them 
together.     The  husband  becomes  madly  jealous  and  kills  them. 

683.  Master  and  Man  (1895),  XVI.  470.     1.  Religion.     A  master  and  his 

servant  are  overtaken  in  a  blizzard.  Through  an  impulse  of  divine 
love,  the  master,  formerly  cruel  and  selfish,  protects  the  body  of  the 
servant  from  freezing  with  his  own,  which  is  frozen  to  death. 

684.  Resurrection    (1902),    XVI.    479.     1.  Social    Reform.     2.  Religion. 

A  juryman  recognizes  in  a  prostitute  that  is  before  the  bar  a  former 
servant  he  had  seduced.  Convicted  of  sin,  he  accompanies  her  to 
Siberia,  to  which  she  is  exiled,  to  comfort  her.  Convinced  also  that 
the  life  of  his  order  of  society  is  contrary  to  the  Gospels,  he  gives  up 
his  lands  to  the  peasants,  and  finds  peace  of  soul.  The  woman  loves 
him,  but  for  his  sake  pretends  to  love  another,  and  is  happy  in  her  re- 
uuiiciation. 


I02      ANALYSIS    OF   THE    WORLD'S    STORIES 

SERGIVS    STEPNIAK    [SEBGIUS    KRAVCHINSKI]    (186!J- 
1895),    XIX.    386. 

685.  The  Career  of  a  Nihilist  (1889),  XV.  452.     1.  History.     2.  Politics. 

3.  Tragedy.  A  story  of  Russian  revolutionists  in  Switzerland  and 
Russia,  reaching  its  climax  in  an  unsuccessful  attempt  to  assassinate 
the  Czar. 

SWEDEN 

FREDRICKA    BREMER    (1802-1865),    XIX.    63. 

686.  The    Neighbors    (1835),    III.    203.     1.  Family   Life.     2.  Love.     3. 

Melodrama.  The  story  of  a  wayward  son,  who  repents  and  is  recon- 
ciled to  his  mother,  and  who  marries  a  girl  of  his  rank,  whereupon  a 
servant  girl,  who  is  in  love  with  him,  attempts  to  murder  his  wife,  and, 
being  prevented  from  so  doing,  commits  suicide. 


DENMARK 

HANS   CHRISTIAN    ANDERSEN    (1806-1876),    XIX.    14. 

687.  O.  T.  (1836),  I.  226.     1.  Youth.     2.  Crime.    3.  Love.    A  boy  and 

a  girl,  illegitimate  children  of  a  rich  man's  son,  are  bom  in  a  House  of 
Correction.  An  inmate,  a  juggler,  tattooes  on  the  boy's  arm  the  letters 
O.  T.,  meaning  House  of  Correction.  The  boy  and  girl  are  separated; 
he  takes  high  social  position,  which  the  juggler  threatens  to  endanger 
by  exposing  his  low  birth.  The  juggler  attempts  to  foist  his  own 
daughter,  a  thief,  on  him  as  his  sister.  The  real  sister  is  discovered — 
a  cultivated  girl,  the  friend  of  the  hero's  sweetheart. 

688.  The  Two  Baronesses   (1840),   I.   236.     1.  Youth.    2.  Love.    The 

love  romance  of  an  illegitimate  youth  and  a  foundling  girl. 

HOLLAND. 

EDUARD  DOrWES  DEKKER  (1820-1887),  XIX.  120. 

689.  MaxHavelaar(1860),  VI.  269.     1.  Dutch  East  Indian  Life.     2.  Poli- 

tics. 3.  Pathos.  An  honest  ofl&cial  in  Java  tries  to  prevent  abuses  of 
the  natives,  and  is  persecuted  and  finally  dismissed  and  impoverished 
because  of  his  humane  efforts. 

MAARTEN    MAARTENS    [J.    M.    W.    VAN    DER    POORTEN- 
SCHWARTZ]    (1868-  ),    XIX.    300. 

690.  God's  Fool  (1892),  XII.  84.  I.  Character.     2.  Bhndness.     3.  Crime. 

4.  Self-Sacrifice.  5.  Philanthropy.  A  rich  man,  a  blind  deaf  mate, 
attempting  to  do  good  to  his  fellows,  is  made  a  dupe  by  one  of  his  twin 
step-brothers,  and  strikes  him.  The  other  step-brother,  coming  in 
and  discovering  his  twin's  infamy,  gets  into  an  altercation  with  him. 


ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S    STORIES      103 

and  kills  him.  The  mute  falsely  confesses  the  crime  to  save  the 
murderer. 

HUNGARY. 

MAVRUS    JOKAI    (1825-1904),    XIX.    279. 

691.  Timar's  Two  Worlds  (1888),  XI.  171.     1.  Hungarian  Life  and  Char- 

acter. 2.  Ethics.  A  Hungarian  boat-captain  on  the  Danube  unwit- 
tingly comes  into  possession  of  a  treasure  which  he  knows  belongs  to 
a  girl,  the  ward  of  a  dishonest  promoter.  He  converts  it  to  his  use, 
and  becomes  wealthy  by  trading.  He  successfully  plots  the  ruin  of  the 
promoter,  and  saves  the  ward  from  poverty  and  indignity.  Though 
in  love  with  another,  in  gratitude  she  marries  the  captain.  But  he  is 
leading  a  double  life,  having  a  peasant  vdie,  who  knows  him  only  as  a 
poor  captain.  Discovering  his  acknowledged  wife's  love  for  another, 
and  her  loyalty  to  himself,  he  retires  to  his  "other  world"  under  cir- 
cumstances that  indicate  his  death,  leaving  the  supposed  widow  in 
possession  of  his  wealth,  and  free  to  marry  her  lover. 

NORWAY 

BJORNSTJERNE    BJORNSON    (1832-  ),    XIX.    50. 

692.  Arne    (1858),    III.    66.     1.  Peasant    Life.     2.  Youth.     3.  Love.     An 

idyllic  tale  of  a  youth,  his  mother,  and  his  sweetheart,  written  in  a 
poetic  vein,  and  containing  original  songs. 

693.  The  Fisher-Maiden  (1868),  III.  77.     1.  The  Theatre.     2.  Peasant 

Life.  3.  Youth.  4.  Love.  The  story  of  a  girl  possessed  of  an 
artistic  temperament,  who  lost  her  lover  through  coquetry,  and  who 
found  her  vocation  on  the  stage,  her  lover  becoming  her  friend,  and 
finally  the  sweetheart  of  her  girl  companion.  Her  patron,  a  village  pas- 
tor, who  opposed  the  theatre,  is  brought  to  see  its  usefulness  in  supply- 
ing an  outlet  for  such  emotional  natures  as  the  girl's. 

JONAS    LIE    (1833-  ).    XIX.    394. 

694.  ThePilotandHis  Wife  (1874),  XII.  20.     1.  Jealousy.     2.  Sea  Life. 

A  pilot  becomes  suspicious  of  his  wife's  relations  with  another  man 
previous  to  his  marrage,  and  becomes  morose  and  cruel.  His  doubts 
are  cleared  at  last,  he  repents  and,  though  fallen  in  fortune,  husband  and 
vdie  become  supremely  happy. 

HJALMAR    HJORTH    BOTESEN    (1848-1895).    XIX.    62. 

695.  GUNNAR    (1874),    III.    172.     1.  Peasant    Life.     2.  Love.     3.  Youth. 

4.  Sport.  The  love  story  of  a  poor  boy  and  a  well-to-do  girl,  whose 
mother  opposes  the  match,  but  is  won  over  to  it  by  the  son  of  her  old 
lover.  Norwegian  customs  and  sports,  dances,  songs,  ski-races,  are 
described. 


I04      ANALYSIS    OF   THE   WORLD'S    STORIES 

AJLKXANDER    KJELLAND    (184»-  ).     XIX.    MB. 

696.  Elsa  (1882),  XI,  345.  1.  Satire.  2.  Psychology.  3.  Social  Reform. 
The  story  of  a  foundling,  whom  "organized  charity"  allows  to  develop- 
into  a  prostitute. 


CANADA. 

(HERE  MAT  FOLLOW  3M.) 
JAMES    DE    MIIXE    (1833-1880),    XIX.    126. 

697.  Cord  AND  Creese  (1867),  VI.  344.     1.  East  Indian  Life  and  Character. 

2.  Melodrama.  3.  Crime  and  its  Detection.  4.  Maritime  Adven- 
ture. A  wild  tale  of  assassination  (by  thugs  of  India),  conspiracy, 
discovery  of  biuied  treasure  at  sea,  and  detection  of  villainy. 

CHARLES    G.    D.    ROBERTS    (1860-  ),    XIX.    358. 

698.  A  Sister  to  Evangeline  (1898),  XIV.  98.     1.  History.     2.  Love.     A 

romance  of  the  expulsion  of  the  French  from  Acadie,  in  which  the 
English  are  justified  in  the  act. 

RALPH    CONNOR    (1860-  ),    XIX.   48. 

699.  The  Sky  Pilot  (1899),  VI.  83.     1.  Frontier  Life.     2.  Religion.     A 

preacher  wins  a  frontier  settlement,  individually  and  en  masse  to  religion 
by  his  fine,  healthy  character  and  good  fellowship. 

GILBERT    PARKER    (1863-  ),    XIX.    335. 

700.  The   Right  of  Way   (1901),   XIII.    157.     1.  Melodrama.     2.  Law. 

3.  Religion.  A  lawyer  saves  a  guilty  man  from  death,  and  wins  a 
wife  thereby.  In  remorse,  he  attempts  suicide;  and  is  saved  by  the 
murderer,  though  with  loss  of  memory.  He  recovers,  but  keeps  his 
existence  a  secret;  becoming  a  tailor.  He  is  an  atheist,  and  his  em- 
ployer, a  religious  fanatic,  steals  a  holy  metal  cross  from  the  church, 
and  with  it  brands  him,  sleeping.  The  village  postmistress  loves  him, 
and  saves  him  from  the  charge  of  church  desecration.  He  saves  her 
from  the  burning  church,  and  dies  of  his  wounds,  converted  from  his 
atheism. 

AUSTRALIA. 

(HERE  MAT  FOLLOW  433  AND  424.) 

BRAZIL. 

STIjVIO    DINARTE    [ALFRED    D'ESCRAGNOLLE    TAUNAT] 
(1843-  ),    XIX.    152. 

701.  Innocencia  (1838),  VII.  123.     1.  South  American  Life  and  Customs. 

2    Love.     3.  Tragedy.     A  doctor  loves  a  girl  betrothed  to  another. 


ANALYSIS    OF    THE    WORLD'S    STORIES      105 

She  returns  his  love,  but  betrothal  in  South  America  is  as  bindiag  as 
marriage,  and  the  lovers  die,  the  man  assassinated  by  the  fianc6,  and 
the  woman  of  a  broken  heart. 


POLAND. 

HENBTK    SIENKIBWICZ    (1846-  ).    XIX.    S75. 

702.  Quo   Vadis   (1895),   XV.    266.     1.  History.     2.  ReUgion.     A   tale   of 

early  Christian  martyrs  in  Rome  under  Nero.  Saints  Peter  and  Paul, 
and  Petronius,  the  Roman  "Arbiter  Elegantiarum"  appear  in  the  story. 

MODERN   GREECE. 

(HEBK  MAT  FOLLOW   162.) 
SOUTH  AFRICA. 

(HERE;  MAT  FOLLOW  421.) 
(HBBE  MAT  FOLLOW  488  AND  489./ 

OLIVE    SCHREINER    (1862-  },    XIX.    362. 

703.  The   Story  of  an  African  Farm  (1883),  XIV.  232.     1.  Religion.- 

2.  Youth.  3.  Character.  4.  Pathos.  Two  English  girls  and  a 
German  boy  are  reared  on  a  Boer  farm.  They  have  strange  religious 
impulses,  out  of  harmony  with  the  life  about  them,  and,  as  they  grow 
older,  tragedy  results  from  this  incompatibihty. 


I 


INDEXES 


I.  Proper  Names 


PAGE 


I.  Persons  .         .         •         •         .  109 

II.  Places   .         .         .         •         •         o  114 

2.  Subjects    .         •         •         •         •         •         •         116 


INDEX  OF  PROPER  ^^AMES 


I.    PERSONS 


Note:   Numbers  refer  to  analyses  on  pages  3  to  105 


Achilles:   Greek  hero,  i 

Agamemnon:   Greek  hero,  i 

^neas:   Trojan  hero,  i,  2 

Alaric,  the  Goth,  266 

Alcott,  Louisa  M.,  American  author, 
touch  of  autobiography,  599.  (See 
also  Authors,  page  iii.) 

Aldrich,  Thomas  Bailey,  American 
author,  touch  of  autobiography,  603. 
(See  also  Authors,  page  iii.) 

Alenfon,  Duke  of,  48 

Alexander  I.,  Czar  of  Russia,  680 

Alexius  Comnenus,  Emperor  of  Con- 
stantinople, 253 

Allen,  Ethan,  general  in  American 
Revolution,  552 

Angelo,  Michael,  Italian  artist,  266 

Anjou,  Duke  of,  49,  50 

Anne  of  Austria,  Queen  of  Louis 
XIII.,  19,  43,  47 

Aphrodite,  Greek  goddess,  i 

Ares,  Greek  god,  i 

Arnold,  Benedict,  general  in  American 
Revolution,  552 

Arnold,  Dr.  Thomas,  English  school- 
master, 399 

Aram,  Eugene,  an  English  murderer, 
288 

Argyle,  Duke  of,  intercedes  for  child- 
murderess,  235 

Athene,  Greek  goddess,  i 

Bailly,  French  revolutionist,  60 
Balsamo,  Joseph,  name  of  Cagliostro, 

q.  V. 
Bayard,  Chevalier,  French  knight,  632 
Bemadotte,  marshal  of  Napoleon  I., 

186 
Bismarck,  German  statesman,  320 
Blucher.  German  general,  180 
Boabdil,  King  of  Granada,  294 
Boccaccio,   Italian    author,   touch   of 

autobiography,    150.     (See   also 

Authors,  page  iii.) 
Bolingbroke,  English  statesman,  200, 

286 


Borgia,     Ca;sar,    murderous     Italian 

prince,  153,  573,  632 
Borrow,    English    author,    touch    at 

autobiography,    309.     (See   also 

Authors,  page  iii.) 
Bright,  John,  English  statesman,  316 
Brissot,  French  revolutionist  60, 
Bronte,     Charlotte,    English    author, 

touch  of  autobiography,  375.     (See 

also  Authors,  page  iii.) 
Brougham,  Lord,  English  statesman, 

310 
Bruce,  Robert,  King  of  Scotland,  254, 

263 
Buckingham,  Duke  of,  43 
Bungay,  Friar,  a  necromancer,  297 
Burgundy,  Duke  of,  war  with  Louis 

XL,  245;   war  with  Swiss,  252 
Burdett-Coutts,   Lady,   EngUsh  phil- 
anthropist, 310,  320 
Burr,  Aaron,  American  politician,  572 
Bussy  d'Ambois,  49,  50 
Bute,  Marquis  of,  English  statesman, 

319 
Byron,  Lord,  English  poet,  315 

Cagliostro,   French  charlatan,  54,  55, 

56,  59.  60 
Calvin,  religious  reformer,  35 
Canonche,  Indian  chief,  528 
Capel,  Monsignore,  prelate,  319 
Carlyle,  Thomas,  English  author,  367 
Caroline,  English  queen,  235 
Catherine  II.,  Empress  of  Russia,  262, 

676 
Catherine  de'  Medicis,  French  queen, 

35,  48,  51 
Cenci,  The,  noble  Italian  family,  154 
Charles  I.,  King  of  England,  45,  237, 

258 
Charles    II.,    King    of    England,    re- 
stored to  throne,  47;   satirized,  200; 

conspiracy  against,  244;  escape,  250 
Charles  IX.,  King  of  France,  35,  48 
Charles  Stuart,  pretender  to  English 

throne,  229,  247 


109 


no 


PROPER  NAMES— PERSONS 


Chesterfield,    Lord,    English   author, 

342 
Christ,  see  Jesus 

Cid,  The,  Spanish  champion,  142 
Cinq-Mars,  Marquis  of,  19 
Claverhouse,    Colonel,   persecutor   of 

Scotch  Covenanters,  233 
Cleveland,  Grover,  President  of  United 

States,  original  of  hero  in  666 
Cobden,  Richard,  EngUsh  statesman, 

320 
Colbert,  French  statesman,  47 
Coligny,  French  admiral,  48,  5 1 
Colonna,  Italian  noble  family  in  feud 

with  Orsini  family,  291 
Columbus,  Christopher,  discoverer  of 

America,  266 
Condd,  French  general,  47 
Condorcet,  French  statesman,  60 
Cooper,   James   Fenimore,  American 

author,  touch  of  autobiography,  534. 

(See  also  Authors,  page  iii.) 
Copp^e,    FranQois,    French    author, 

touches     of     autobiography,    128. 

(See  also  Authors,  page  iii.) 
Craven,  Charles,  Colonial  governor  of 

South  Carolina,  560 
Cromwell,  English  Protector,  45,  250 

Danton,  French  statesman,  60,  130 
Dantzic,   Duchess  of,   Napoleon   I.'s 

laundress,  131 
Darnley,  Lord,  husband  of  Mary  of 

Scotland,  398 
David,   Prince  royal  of  Scotland,  in 

Crusade,  249 
David,  son  of  Robert  III.,  of  Scotland, 

251 
Derby,  Earl  of,  English  statesman,  320 
Desmouhns,  French  revolutionist,  296 
De  Witt,  execution  of  the  brothers, 

57 
Dickens,    Charles,    English     author, 
320;    touch  of  autobiography,  345. 
(See  also  Authors,  page  iii.) 
Diomed,  Greek  hero,  i 
Disraeli,    Benjamin,    English   author 
and  statesman,  touches  of  autobiog- 
raphy,   310,   316,   319,   320.     (See 
also  Authors,  page  iii.) 
Douglas,  James,  Scots  earl,  254 
Du  Barry,  Madame,  mistress  of  Louis 

XV.,  54,  55,  56 
Dudevant,  Madame,  see  Sand,  George 
Du  Guesclin,  French  knight,  494 
Dumas,   Rend,   French  revolutionist, 

296 
Dumouriez,  French  general,  60 


Edward  the  Confessor,  King  of  Eng- 
land, 299 
Edward  I.,  King  of  England,  254 
Edward  III.,  Enghsh  king,  494 
Edward,   the   Black  Prince,   English 

warrior,  494 
Edward  IV.,  King  of  England,  297 
Elizabeth,  English  queen,  242,  653 
Epicurus,  Graeco-Roman  philosopher, 

264,  443 
Erasmus,  Dutch  theologian,  358 
Esterhazy,    Prince,    European    diplo- 
mat, 310 

Fairfax,  Lord,  English  nobleman,  54 
Ferdinand  and  Isabella,  sovereigns  of 

Spain,  294 
Fern,  Fanny,  touch  of  autobiography, 

569     (See  also  Authors,  page  iii.) 
Fouquet,  chief  of  police,  troubles  with 

Louis  XIV. 
Fox,  Charles,  English  statesman,  672 
Francis  II.,  King  of  France,  35,  51 
Frederick  the  Great,  King  of  Prussia, 

181 
Fuller,  Margaret,  American    author, 

557 

Gama,  Vasco  de,  Portuguese  explorer, 
197 

Gambetta,  French  statesman,  original 
of  character  in  118 

Garibaldi,  Italian  patriot,  319 

Gilbert,  Sir  Humphrey,  English  sea- 
captain,  383 

Gladstone,  W.  E.  English  statesman, 
316 

Godwin,  Earl,  English  king-maker, 
299 

Goethe,  German  author,  touch  of 
autobiography,  168.  (See  also 
Authors.) 

Goffe,  English  pirate,  239 

Gonzaga,  Marie  de,  in  Conspiracy  of 
Cinq-Mars,  19 

Gortschakoff,  Prince,  Russian  diplo- 
mat, 310 

Greeley,  Horace,  American  editor,  657 1 

Grenville,  Sir  Richard,  English  sea-J 
captain,  383 

Guillotine,  Dr.,  inventor  of  beheading| 
machine,  59 

Guise,  Duke  of,  48,  50,  51 

Gustavus  Adolphus,  King  of  Sweden,] 
237 

Hamilcar,  Carthagenian  general,  82 
Hannibal,  Carthagenian  general,  655J 


PROPER  NAMES— PERSONS 


III 


Harcourt,  Lord,  English  statesman, 

320 
Harold,  English  King,  299,  386 
Hawkins,  Sir  John,  English  sea-cap- 
tain, 3S3 
Hawthorne,      Nathaniel,      American 
author,   touch     of    autobiography, 
557.     (See  also  Authors,  page  iii.) 
Haydn,  German  musical  composer,  69 
Hector,  Trojan  hero,  i 
Henry  H.,  King  of  France,  51 
Henry  IH.,  King  of  France,  48,  49,  50, 

480 
Henry  IV.,  King  of  France,  35,  48,  49, 

50.480 
Henry  VI.,  King  of  England,  297 
Henry  VIII.,  King  of  England,  180 
Henrietta  Maria,  Queen  of  Charles  I., 

47 
Hera,  Greek  goddess,  i 
Hereward,    Saxon    (English)    patriot, 

253.  386 
Heriot,  George,  banker  of  James  I., 

243 
Hertford,  Marquis  of,  English  states- 
man, 310,  316 
Honorius,  Emperor  of  Rome,  402 
Hook,  Theodore,  English  wit,  310,  316 
Hopkins,  Dr.,  New  England  clergy- 
man, 572 
Hortense,  Queen  of  Belgium,  320 
Hypatia,  Alexandrian  philosopher,  382 
Humboldt,  Baron  von,  German  scien- 
tist, 316 
Hunt,  Leigh,  English  poet,  346 

Ireton,  general  in  English  Revolution, 

281 
Isabella,  equal  consort  of  Ferdinand 

of  Spain,  294 

James  I.,  King  of  England,  243 
James  II.,  King  of  England,  satirized, 

200;  war  in  Ireland,  279 
James   Stuart,   pretender   to   English 

throne,  232 
Jeffrey,  Judge,    presides   at  "Bloody 

Assizes,"  411 
Jesus  Christ,  73,  ?,66,  591 
Joan  of  Arc,  French  patriot,  461 
Jewett,  Sarah  Orne,  American  author, 

touch  of  autobiography,  637.     (See 

also  Authors,  page  iii.) 
John,  English  King,  238 
Jones,   Paul,   sea   hero  of  American 

Revolution,  54,  523,  672 
Joseph,  Father,  French  prelate,  asso- 
ciate of  Richelieu,  19 


Josephine,  Empress,  Queen  of  Napo 

leon  I.,  pardons  prisoner,  20 
Juno:  see  Hera,  i 

KaU,  Hindu  goddess  of  murder,  a68 
Kirke,  English  general  in  Ireland,  27c 

Lafayette,  Marquis  de,  French  states- 
man, 58,  59,  60 

Lamartine,  French  author  and  states- 
man; his  own  love  story,  17.  (See 
also  Authors,  page  iii.) 

Landor,  Walter  Savage,  English 
author,  346 

Laud,    Archbishop,    English    prelate, 

433 
Launay,  de,  governor  of  the  Bastile,  58 
Lavater,  physiognomist,  54 
Leicester,  Earl  of,  murders  wife,  242 
Leonardo    da    Vinci,    Italian     artist, 

174 
Lespinasse,  Julie  de,  French  literary 

woman,  476 
Liszt,  musical  composer,  32 
Loti,  Pierre,  touch  of  autobiography, 

138.    (See  also  Authors,  page  iii.) 
Louis  XII.,  King  of  France,  63,  245 
Louis  XIII.,  King  of  France,  19,  43 
Louis  XIV.,  King  of  France,  45,  47, 

80 
Louis  XV.,  King  of  France,  54,  55 
Louis  XVI.,  King  of  France,  55,  56, 

58,  59,  60,  130,  182 

Louis    XVII.,    "Lost    Dauphin"    of 

France,  182,  628 
Lucas,  Vrain,  literary  forger,  original 

of  character  in  121 
Luther,    Martin,    religious    reformer, 

266,  418 
Lyly,  English  dramatist,  240 

Macgregor,  Rob  Roy,  Highland  chief, 

234 
Manning,  Cardinal,  English  prelate, 

.   319 

Marat,   French  revolutionist,  55,  59, 

60 
Margaret  of  Anjou,  Queen  of  Henry 

VI.  of  England,  297 
Marguerite  of  Valois,  Queen  of  Henry 

IV.  of  France,  48 
Maria  Theresa,  Queen  of  Austria,  181 
Marie    Antoinette,    Queen    of    Louis 

XVI.  of  France,  53,  54,  55,  56,  58, 

59,  60,  130,  182 
Mars:  see  Ares,  i 

Mary,  Queen  of  Scots,  35,  51,  241, 
398,  653 


112 


PROPER  NAMES— PERSONS 


Mazarin,    Cardinal,   French  premier, 

45.  47- 

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy,  Felix,  musi- 
cal composer,  original  of  hero,  422 

Menelaus,  Greek  hero,  i 

Mesmer,  discoverer  of  hypnotism,  56 

Metternich,  Austrian  diplomat,  186 

Michelangelo,  Italian  artist,  266 

Minerva,  see  Athene,  i 

Mirabeau,  French  revolutionist,  59 

Mohammed,  founder  of  Moslem  re- 
ligion, 266 

Moncey,  marshal  of  Napoleon  I.,  147 

Monk,  English  general,  47 

Monmouth,  Duke  of,  rebellion  of,  233, 
411 

Montgomery,  Count,  accidentally  kills 
Henry  II.  of  France  in  tourney,  51 

Montrose,  Earl  of,  Scots  general,  237 

Moreau,  marshal  of  Napoleon  I.,  186 

Murger,  Henri,  French  author,  touch 
of  autobiography,  86.  (See  also 
Authors,  page  iii.) 

Musset,  Alfred  de,  French  author,  his 
relations  with  George  Sand,  75. 
(See  also  Authors,  page  iii.) 

Napoleon    I.,    French    emperor,    at 
Waterloo,  16;  pardons  prisoner,  20; 
23;  idealized,  25;  empire  of,  36;  rise 
of,  60;  soldier  of,  91,  474;  his  laun- 
dress, 131;   campaign  in  Germany, 
177,  186,  271;   oppressor  of  Tous- 
saint,  282;    Irish  soldier  and,  323, 
324;  Waterloo,  331;  in  Russia,  680 
Napoleon  III.,  French  emperor,  91 
Narbonne,  French  statesman,  60 
Necker,  French  statesman,  58 
Nelson,  Horatio,  English  sea-captain, 

539 
Nero,  Roman  emperor,  266 
Ney,  marshal  of  Napoleon  I.,  186 
Nicot,   Doctor,   French  revolutionist, 

296 
Norton,  Mrs.  Caroline,  poetess,  origi- 
nal of  heroine,  417 

Orleans,  Duke  of,  French  nobleman, 

59 
Orsini,  Italian  noble  family  in  feud 

with  Colonna  family,  291 
Ouida,   Anglo-French   author,   touch 

of  autobiography,   445.     (See   also 

Authors,  page  iii.) 

Palafox,  Spanish  general,  147 
Palmerston,  Lord,  English  statesman, 
330 


Paris,  Trojan  hero,  i 

Parr,   Catherine,  last  wife  of  Henry 

VIII.,  180 
Parton,    Sarah     Payson,     see     Fern, 

Fanny 
Paul,  Saint,  in  Rome,  702 
Pausanius,  Regent  of  Sparta,  307 
Peter  the  Great,  Czar  of  Russia,  584 
Peter,  Saint,  Roman  martyr,  702 
Petrarch,  Italian  poet,  266 
Petronius,     "arbiter     elegantiarum " 

of  Rome,  702 
Philip  IV.  of  Spain,  Gil  Bias  procures 

mistress  for,  6 
Philip,  King,  American  Indian  chief, 

528,  650 
Planche,  Gustave,  French  critic,  32 
Poggatchoff,  Russian  pretender,  676 
Porpora,  musical  composer,  69 

Rameses  II.,  King  of  Egypt,  193 
Reni,  Guido,  Italian  artist,  174 
Reynard,  Earl,  mediaeval  noble,  166 
Richard  I.,  English  king,  238,  249,  503 
Richard  III.,  as  Duke  of  Gloucester, 

297 
Richelieu,   French  premier,   in   Con- 
spiracy of  Cinq-Mars,  19;  character 
in  novel,  43 
Rienzi,  Roman  patriot,  291 
Robert  III.,  King  of  Scotland,  251 
Robespierre,  French  revolutionist,  59. 

60,  296 
Robin  Hood,  English  outlaw,  238 
Rohan,  Cardinal  de,  French  prelate,  56 
Roland,     Madame,     French     noble- 
woman, 60 
Rothschild,   Baron   de,   European   fi- 
nancier, 316,  318,  320 
Rouget  de  I'lsle,  author  of  Marseil . 

laise,  60,  130 
Rousseau,    French    author,    54,    55. 
(See  also  Authors,  page  iii.) 

Saladin,  Saracen  paladin,  249 

Sand,  George,  French  author,  charac- 
ter in  fiction,  32,  75.  (See  also 
Authors,  page  iii.) 

Sarsfield,  Patrick,  general  of  James  II., 
in  Ireland,  279 

Savonarola,  Italian  religious  reformer, 

390,  573 
Scanderbeg,  Albanian  hero,  614 
Schomberg,  general  of  William  III., 

in  Ireland,  279 
Sforza,  Ludovico,  duke  of  Milan,  632 
Shelley,  Percy  Bysshe,  English  poet, 

315- 


PROPER  NAAIES -PERSONS 


"3 


Sheppard,  Jack,  English  criminal,  322 
Smith,  Goldwin,  English  publicist,  319 
Smollett,    English   author,    touch    of 
autobiography,      212.      (See     also 
Authors,  page  iii.) 
Solomon,  King,  mines  in  Africa,  488 
Stael,  De,  Madame,  French  author,  58, 
60.     (See  also  Authors,  page  iii.) 
Stern,  Daniel,  character  in  novel,  32 
Sterne,     Laurence,     English    author, 
touches  of  autobiography,  209,  210. 
(See  also  Authors,  page  iii.) 
St.  Just,  French  revolutionist,  59 
St.  Maur,  general  in  English  Revolu- 
tion, 281 
Swedenborg,  Emanuel,  Swedish  mys- 
tic, 24,  28,  54 

Taylor,  Bayard,  American  author, 
touch  of  autobiography,  587.  (See 
also  Authors,  page  iii.) 

Temple,  Charlotte,  woman  buried  in 
Trinity  churchyard,  New  York,  517 

Thackeray,  William  Makepeace,  Eng- 
lish author,  320.  (See  also  Au- 
thors, page  iii.) 

Titus,  Roman  emperor,  266 

Torquemada,  Spanish  inquisitor,  294 

Toussaint  L'Ouverture,  liberator  of 
San  Domingo,  282 

Venus,  see  Aphrodite,  i 
Vergniaud,  French  statesman,  60 


Viaud,  Louis  M.  J.,  see  Loti,  Pierre 
Voltaire,  French  philosopher,  54,  t8i. 
(See  also  Authors,  page  iii.) 

Wallace,  William,  Scots  patriot,   2f^i 

Walpole,  Horace,  English  statesman, 
672.     (See  also  Authors,  page  iii.) 

Warwick,  Earl  of,  English  king-maker, 
297 

\\  ashington,  George,  American  pa- 
triot, 335,  521 

Wellington,  Lord,  r.nglish  general  and 
statesman,  310 

Wilberforce,  Bishop,  English  philan- 
thropist, 315 

Wilde,  Oscar,  English  author,  satire 
on,  511.  (See  also  Authors,  page 
iii.) 

William  the  Conqueror,  King  of  Eng- 
land, 299, 386 

William  III.,  English  king,  200;  war 
in  Ireland,  279 

William  of  Nassau,  Dutch  patriot,  57 

Willis,  N.  P.,  American  author,  569 

Wiseman,  Cardinal,  EngHsh  prelate, 
320 

Woffington,  Margaret,  English  actress, 

353 
Wolfe,  English  general,  335 

Ximenes,  Cardinal,  54 

Zanoni,  name  of  Cagliostro,  q.  v. 


II.     PLACES 


Note:  Numbers  refer  to  analyses  on  pages  3  to  105 


Abyssinia,  208 

Algiers,  113,  444,  512 

Arabia,  3,  223,  303 

Australia,  gold  discovered,  355; 
transportation  to,  361;  bush-rang- 
ing, 423 

Babylon,  philosopher  of,  7 

Belgium,   Waterloo,    331;    school   in, 

375 
Bourbon,  Isle  of,  68 
Brazil,  life  in,  701 

Canada,  novels  of,  697-700 
Carthage,  ancient,  82 
Corsica,  island  of,  46 

Denmark,  novels  of,  687,  688 

East  Indies,  life  in  Java,  689;  Malay- 
sia, 6.y7 

Egypt,  ancient,  193,  264,  382 

England,  see  Great  Britain 

Europe,  Americans  in,  562,  619,  620. 
(See  also  particular  countries,  e.g., 
France.) 

Florence,  390 

France,  novels  of,  5-141;  execution  of 
Louis  XVI.,  182;  Englishman  trav- 
els through,  210;  English  soldier 
in,  212;  Scotsman  in,  245,  461; 
French  Revolution,  296,  349;  siege 
of  Paris,  306,  667;  scene  of  novel, 
356,  658;  Latin  Quarter  of  Paris, 
428,  435;  Normandy,  442,  627; 
soldier  of,  480;  time  of  Charle- 
magne, 630 

Germany,  novels  of,  166-196;  Eng- 
lish soldier  in,  212;  Frenchman  in, 
271;  robber,  280;  the  Reformation 
in,  418;  mythical  state  of,  467,  506; 
life  in,  475;  drinking-bout  in,  531 

Great  Britain,  novels  of,  198-516; 
French  soldiers  in  England,  43,  45, 
47;  Guernsey,  Isle  of,  65;  vices  of 
English  aristocracy,  66;  Italian- 
English  romance,  156;  court  of 
Henry  VIII. ,  180;    society  in,  520; 


Americans  in  England,  631,  672; 
Lancashire,  634;  American  lad  in 
England,  635;  scene  of  story,  636; 
court  of  Elizabeth,  653 

Greece,  ancient,  i,  307;  modern,  ban- 
dits in,  92 

Guernsey,  isle  of,  65 

Holland,  novels  of,  689-690;  tulip 
mania  in,  57;  execution  of  the  De 
Witts,  57;  soldier's  adventures  in, 
80;  scene  of  novel,  358;  life  in,  608 

Hungary,  life  in,  691 

Iceland,  the  Eddas,  4;  outlaw,  431 

India,  worship  of  KaH,  268;  theft  of 
sacred  jewel,  406;  Sepoy  rebellion, 
465;    Persian  in,  648. 

Ireland,  novels  of,  227,  228,  276,  278, 
279,  308,  323,  324,  329 

Italy,  novels  of,  149-165;  travel  in,  12; 
Scotsman  in,  12;  priest's  adven- 
tures in,  16;  life  in,  17;  Englishman 
in,  210,  312,  315;  revolution  in,  319; 
Florence,  390;  Venice,  532;  Rome. 
558,649;  Sorrento,  572;  Milan,  632 

Japan,  life  in,  138 

Lancashire,  634 
Lisbon,  earthquake,  618 
London,  see  Great  Britain 

Man,  island  of,  477 
Mauritius,  island  of,  10 
Milan,  632 
Moscow,  584 

Normandy,  442,  627 
Norway,  novels  of,  692-696;    Norse 
cosmogony,  4 ;  human  monster  of,  62 

Orient,  the,  life  in,  79,  194.  (See  also 
particular  countries,  e.g.,  Arabia.) 

Pacific  Islands,  see  Sea,  the 
Palestine  149,  248,  249,  266,  313,  318, 

503,  591 
Panama,  proposed  canal,  602 
Paris,  see  France 


114 


PROPER  NAMES— PLACES 


"S 


Persia,  267 
Poland,  patriot  of,  262 
Portugal,  story  of,  197;  Lisbon  earth- 
quake, 618 

Rome,  ancient,  2,  266,  290,  402,  443, 
655,  702;  mediaeval,  291;  modem, 
SS».  649 

Russia,  novels  of,  676-685;  English- 
man in,  507;  Moscow,  584 

Sahara,  The,  "the  garden  of  Allah," 

512 
Scotland,  novels  of,  229-237,  239-241, 
244,  247,  251,  254,  263,  354,  398, 
408,  456,  457,  469,  470,  472,  473, 

474,  491,  498,  499,  500 
Sea,  The,  wreck,  10,  459,  470,  sailor 
salves  wreck,  65;  Vasco  da  Gama, 
197;  attack  on  Carthagena,  212; 
sea-dogs,  213;  pirate,  239;  sea- 
fightinWarof  i8i2,  272;  lifeatsea, 
274;  castaways,  361,  430,  546,  600; 
defeat  of  the  Armada,  383 ;  yachting, 
395,457;  treasure  island,  466;  sea- 
port Ufe,  508;  fishing  off  New- 
foundland, 514;  sea-fights,  523,  526, 
529,  538,  539,  542,  543;  pursuit,  534; 
race,  549;  Antarctic  exploration, 
563;  Pacific  islands,  578;  whaling, 
579;  tyranny  of  captain,  674;  Nor- 
wegian pilot,  694 


Sorrento,  572 

Soudan,  The,  war  in,  513 

South  Africa,  novel  of,  703;  diamond 

mines,  364;    gold  mines,  488;    im- 
mortal princess,  489 
South  America,  siege  of  Carthagena, 

212;    proposed  Panama  canal,  602; 

raining  in,  665;  life  in  Brazil,  701. 

(See  also  West  Indies.) 
Spain,   novels  of,    142-148;    Spanish 

life,    6,    61;     Inquisition    in,    268; 

siege   of    Granada,    294;     English 

soldiers  in,  494;    American  Indian 

in, 536 
Sweden,  life  in,  686 
Smtzerland,     Englishman     in,     252; 

Hfe  in,  453 

Turkey,  Constantinople,  253,  614 

United  States  of  America,  novels  of, 
577-674;  early  Louisiana,  8;  set- 
tlement of  New  York  State,  265; 
Virginia,  332,  335;  Englishman  in, 
343;   Adirondacks,  469;    Utah,  493 

Venice,  532 

West  Indies,  slave  life  in,  198;  casta- 
way in,  199;  Negro  insurrection  in 
San  Domingo,  282;  and  in  Martin- 
ique, 644 


INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS 

Note:   Numbers  refer  to  analyses  on  pages  3  to  105 


Abduction,  see  Kidnapping. 

Adoption,  merchant  and  wife  adopt 
girl,  132;  squire  adopts  foundling, 
206;  merchant  adopts  foundling, 
339;  miser  adopts  foundling,  389; 
deserted  wife  adopts  orphan,  654 

Adultery,  ethics  of,  149;  woman 
shields  clergjTnan,  the  father  of  her 
child,  553.  (See  also  Courtesan 
and  Mistress  in  Character  ;  Seduc- 
tion.) 

Adventures,  picare.sque,  6,  143,  145; 
of  soldier-priest,  16;  of  comrades-in- 
arms, 43,  45,  47;  of  band  of  guards, 
49,  50;  of  con\-ict,  64;  sailor's  fight 
with  octopus,  65;  of  wandering 
Jew,  73,  266;  of  girl  disguised  as  a 
cavalier,  76;  of  strolling  player,  77; 
of  soldier,  80;  of  mad  knight,  144, 
215;  of  wife  disguised  as  a  man,  149; 
of  Vasco  da  Gama,  197;  of  casta- 
way sailor,  199;  of  poor  young  man, 
204;  of  foundling,  206;  of  senti- 
mental pliilosopher,  210;  of  ship's 
surgeon,  212;  of  poUtical  aspirant, 
213;  of  sharper,  214,  329;  of  ser- 
vant on  tour,  216;  of  madman,  218; 
of  English  officer  in  Scotland,  229; 
of  mercenary  soldier,  237,  245; 
chivalric,  238,  249,  253;  of  English- 
man in  Switzerland,  252;  of  young 
Persian,  267;  of  madman,  268;  of 
British  sailor  in  War  of  181 2,  272; 
of  youth  seeking  father,  273;  of 
young  naval  officer,  274;  of  boy 
Crusoe,  275;  of  Cavalier  in  English 
Revolution,  281 ;  of  wandering  man 
among  gypsies,  309;  of  mystics  in 
Orient,  313,  318;  of  Jack  Sheppard, 
322;  of  Irish  soldier,  323,  324;  of 
runaway  scholar,  358;  of  English 
sea-captains,  383;  of  yeoman 
among  outlaws,  411;  of  Scotch 
monk  in  France,  461;  expedition 
after  buried  treasure,  466,  488;  of 
kidnapped  heir  and  outlaw,  470, 
472;  of  boy  in  War  of  Roses,  471; 
of  French  nobleman  of  Henry  IV., 
480;  of  English  troop  in  Spain,  494; 
mediaeval  romance,  502;  of  Richard 


I.,  503;  of  Oxford  student  in  Eng- 
lish Revolution,  505 ;  of  Enghshman 
in  mythical  Balkan  country,  506;  in 
Antarctic,  563;  of  sailor  among 
Pacific  cannibals,  578;  trip  to  plan- 
ets, 664;  of  journalists  in  siege  of 
Paris,  667;  of  American,  in  Balkan 
state,  668.  (See  also  Adventurer, 
Aeronauts,  Bandit,  Explorer,  Hero, 
Indian,  Knight,  Outlaw,  Patriot, 
Pioneer,  Pirate,  Rascal,  Sailor, 
Soldier,  Spy,  in  Character.) 
/^ronautics,  trip  to  planets,  664 
.■^stheticism,  evils  of,  490;    satire  of 

5"  .  . 
Agnosticism,  see  Religion 

Alchemy,  the  Wandering  Jew,  266 

Allegory,  see  Symbolism 

Altruism,  allegory  of,  79,  175.  (See 
also  Heroism,  Patriotism,  Philan- 
thropy, Self -Sacrifice.) 

Ambition,  of  priest,  15,  16;  of  con- 
spirator, 19;  of  woman,  23;  of 
place-hunter,  26;  of  poet,  30;  of 
politician,  41,  118,  136,  310,  311, 
316,  317,  319,  320;  of  soldier,  80; 
of  Uon-hunter,  113;  of  millionaire, 
116;  social,  121,  409,  476,  626,  647, 
662;  thwarted,  128,  165;  of  jour- 
nalist, 136;  of  student,  165;  of 
author,  485,  501,  569;  renounced, 
594;  of  preacher,  652;  of  actress,  693 

.\narchj',  evils  of,  112 

Anger,  at  image  of  saint  by  girl  whose 
prayer  he  had  not  answered,  141; 
at  lover  by  woman  he  had  saved 
from  rascal,  176 

Animals,  sailor  fights  with  octopus,  65 ; 
rational  horses,  200;  knight  fights 
with  tiger  and  orang-utan,  253;  boy 
Crusoe  tames  seal,  275;  half- 
witted boy  pets  raven,  342;  fairy 
tale  of  water  animals,  385;  wolf -boy 
masters  forest  beasts,  515;  dog 
saves  life,  532;  prenatal  influence 
on  girl  of  snake,  566;  magic  whale, 

579 
-Antiquarianism,     see    Antiquary    in 
Character 


.16 


Archaeology  to 
Character — Adventurer 


SUBJECTS 


"7 


Archaeology,  medijeval  Paris,  63;  an- 
cient Carthage,  82;  ancient  Eg}'pt, 
264;  Pompeii,  290 

Architecture,  Notre  Dame  Cathedral, 
63;   "Golden  House"  of  Nero,  592 

Aristocracy,  see  Aristocrat  and  Noble- 
man in  Character;   Society 

Army,  see  Soldier  in  Character; 
Chivalry,  Combat,  Histor}' 

Arson,  by  insane  adventuress,  440 

Art,  see  Artist  in  Character;  Archi- 
tecture, Painting,  Sculpture 

Assassination,  see  Miirder  in  Death 

Astrolog)',  Catherine  de  Medici's  de- 
votion to,  35 ;  astrologer  casts  hero's 
horoscope,  230;  youth  dabbles  in, 289 

Astronomy,  voyage  among  planets, 
664 

Atheism,  see  Religion 

Athletics  and  Sports,  at  school,  399; 
archerj',  400;  man  brutalized  by, 
407;  skating,  475,  6c8;  horse-rac- 
ing, 478;  prize-lighting,  483;  sleigh- 
riding  on  ice,  541 ;  boat-racing,  568; 
chariot-racing  591;  polo,  648;  ski- 
racing,  695 

Authors,  of  stories  in  the  Authors^ 
Digest;  see  page  iii 

Authorship,  plagiarism,  485,  496; 
bookstore  clerk  becomes  poet,  501; 
career  of  Jewish  authoress,  510; 
career  of  writer,  569,  587;  love 
troubles  of  novelist  due  to  his  hero- 
ine, 660.  (See  also  Author,  Journal- 
ist and  Poet  in  Character;  Litera- 
ture.) 

Autobiography,  see  Alcott,  Louisa  M.; 
Aldrich,  Thomas  Bailey;  Boccac- 
cio; Borrow,  George;  Bronte, 
Charlotte;  Cooper,  James  Feni- 
more;  Coppee,  Frangois;  Dickens, 
Charles;  Disraeli,  Benjamin;  Fern, 
Fanny;  Goethe;  Jewett,  Sarah 
Ome;  Lamartine;  Loti,  Pierre; 
Murger,  Henri;  Musset,  Alfred  de; 
Ouida;  Smollett,  Tobias;  Sterne, 
Laurence;  Taylor,  Bayard;  in 
Authors,  page  iii 

Avarice,  greed  for  gold,  26,  389,  437, 
452;  for  land,  109;  pretended,  351; 
(See  also  Ambition,  Miser  and 
Usurer  in  Character.) 

Banking,  bandit  as  bank  depositor, 
92;  bank  robber}',  97;  Heriot,  gold- 
smith of  James  I.,  243;  bank  fail- 
ure, 333;  embezzlement,  359.  (See 
also  Usurer  in  Character.) 


Bankruptcy,  see  Business 

Betting,  see  Gambling 

Bigamy,  see  Marriage 

Biography,  see  Index  of  Proper 
Names:  I.  Persons  on  page  109; 
Authors  on  page  iii;  and  History 

Blackmail,  of  banker's  wife,  97 

BUndness,  blind  heroine,  66:  loyal 
subject  blinds  prince  by  accident, 
117;  blind  man  recovering  sight  is 
repelled  by  sight  of  ugly  sweetheart, 
148;  girl  attends  to  blind  man 
wronged  by  her  grandfather,  1S7; 
blind  heroine  of  Pompeii,  290;  blind 
witness  of  murder,  462;  blind  man 
throws  himself  into  light  to  be 
killed,  513;  blind  deaf-mute,  690 

Botany,  prisoner  grows  a  flower,  20; 
magic  flower  ingredient  of  elixir  of 
life,  559.  (See  also  Botanist  in 
Character.) 

Burlesque,  see  Satire 

Business,  rivalry,  30,  450;  career,  31, 
37,  185,  190,412;  bankruptcy,  114; 
promotion,  300;  ruined  merchant, 
344 ;  mill-owner  ruined  by  American 
embargo,  374;  congregation  of 
shop-keepers,  419;  boy,  magically 
changed  to  man,  plays  hob  with  busi- 
ness, 484;  satire  of,  533;  crook,  586; 
railroad  promotion,  611;  evils  of 
trusts,  623;  land  speculation,  656; 
wheat  speculation,  671.  (See  also 
Banking,  Clerk,  Grocer,  Inventor, 
Manufacturer,  Promoter,  Usurer,  in 
Character;  Forgery;  Invention; 
Manufacture;  Wealth.) 

Cannibalism,  of  savages,  199,  578 

CHARACTER 

[Listed  by  professions  and  moral 
characteristics,  such  as  Doctor,  Ad- 
venturess. For  proper  names  of  char- 
acters in  this  and  other  fiction,  see 
Vol.  XX.  of  Authors'  Digest.] 

Actress,  courtesan,  107;  stage-dancer 
as  governess,  336,  352;  wife  of 
Highland  laird,  457;  friend  of 
artist  girl,  601;    stage-smitten  girl, 

693 

Actor,  77,  168 

Adventurer,  42,  80,  267;  rascally, 
143,  145;  among  gipsies,  309; 
military,  323,  324;  Irish,  329;  wan- 
dering youth,  358;  sailor  among 
Pacific  islanders,  578;   Swiss  family 


ii8 


SUBJECTS 


Character — Adventuress 
to  English  Types 


on  Pacific  island,  675.  (See  also 
Explorer.) 

Adventuress,  45,  331,  344;  redeemed, 
404;  bigamous,.  405,  440,  476,  502 

Adulteress,  shields  lover,  553 

/Eronauts,  664 

^Esthete,  490,  511 

Agitator,  labor,  381,  623;  New  York 
anti-rent  rioters,  545.  (See  also 
Reformer.) 

Antiquary,  40,  231 

Aristocracy,  poor,  421;  English,  520, 
O31;  American,  626,  631;  grand- 
father, 635;  "Four  Hundred," 
662.     (See  also  Nobleman.) 

Artist,  36,  183;  theatrical,  353,  354, 
443;  tricked  by  magic,  487;  bhnd, 
513;  colony  in  Rome,  558;  prefers 
true  friendship  of  actress  to  selfish 
love  of  doctor,  601 ;  loved  by  model, 
627 

Astrologer,  230 

Atheist,  34;  persecuted,  492;  con- 
verted, 700 

Athlete,  murderous,  407 

Author,  rising,  345,  346;  Transcen- 
dentalists  as  farmers,  557;'  saves 
country  girl,  587;  in  love,  660. 
(See  also  Journalist,  Poet.) 

Authoress,  rivals,  32,  417;  Jewish, 
510;  marries  editor,  569 

Avenger,  44,  46,  271 

Bachelor,  400,  662 

Bandit,  professional,  92;   heroic,  287 

Banker,  of  King  James  I.,  243 

Barber,  486 

Barmaid,  entraps  author,  496 

Beggar,  231 

Bigamist,  405,  440,  690 

Blind  girl,  in  love  with  disfi^red  man, 
66;  man,  witnesses  murder,  462; 
artist,  513;  deaf  mute  confesses 
murder  to  save  step-brother,  690 

Boston  types,  607 

Botanist,  92 

Boy,  see  Vouth 

Braggart,  113 

Broker,  wheat,  671 

Brother,  avenging,  46,  246;  loyal,  295; 
spendthrift  and  his  good  brother, 
335;  wayward,  377,  388;  brothers 
at  enmity,  469 

Castaway,    430,    459,    546;    widows, 

600 
Charlatan,  54,  55,  56,  59,  60,  439 
Child,  see  Girl,  Youth 


Clergyman,  simple-minded,  217; 
grafting,  367,  368;  curate,  396,  419; 
murderous,  497;  young  Scotch,  in 
love  with  ^psy,  499;  father  of  ille- 
gitimate girl,  500;  shielded  by  his 
fellow  in  adultery,  555;  New  Eng- 
land, 571;  opinion  of,  changed  by 
girl,  582;  selfish  missionary,  600; 
circuit  rider,  605;  revivalist,  652; 
opposes  theatre,  693;  frontier 
preacher^  699 

Clerk,  loyal,  31,  185; .  disloyal,  222; 
bookstore,  becomes  poet,  501 

Conspirator,  53 

Convict,  see  Criminal 

Coquette,  18,  332,  396;  punished,  446 

Courtesan,  8,  119;  noble-souled,  88, 
102;  congenital,  89;  actress,  107; 
Algerian,  113;  Japanese,  138;  self- 
sacrificing,  684;  victim  of  organized 
charity,  696.     (See  also  Mistress.) 

Coward,  495 

Creole  types,  62  r,  644 

Criminal,  repentant,  64,  190,  322; 
grateful,  350;  converted,  355;  in- 
nocent convict,  361;  merchant,  361 ; 
in  business  and  politics,  586;  jug- 
gler, 687.  (See  also  Bandit,  Forger, 
Murderer,  Poisoner,  Rascal,  Rob- 
ber, Villain.) 

Deaf-mute,  blind,  confesses  murder 
to  save  step-brother,  690 

Daughter,  assassin's,  292;  adopted, 
350;  outlaw's,  411;   perjurer's,  472 

Detective,  42,  64,  97, 98,  352,  406,  493, 
625 

Dilettante,  marries  heiress,  620 

Doctor,  country,  25,  637,  654;  mur- 
derous, 95;  patriot,  156;  swindling, 
337,  364;  woman,  365;  saved  from 
snakes  by  girl,  566;  mulatto,  594; 
selfish,  601;  in  Civil  War,  613; 
Brazilian,  701 

Doctrinaire,  democratic,  274 

Drunkard,  105,  565,  622 

Dupe,  42,  121,  116,  279;  blind,  690 

Dutchman,  New  York,  519 

Egotist,  22,  30,  83,  85,  121,  124,  416, 

533 
Employer,  sec  Manufacturer,  Master, 

Merchant 

Employee,  see  Clerk,  Mechanic,  Ser- 
vant, Working  Girl,  Workingman 

English  types,  county  gentry,  256- 
261;  eccentric,  270;  aristocracv. 
314,   3x9;    village,   327;    boarding 


<Jbaractcr — 
Eupbulst  to  Indian 


SUBJECTS 


119 


house,  334;  girl  in  America,  427; 
rustics,  448-451 

Euphuist,  240 

Evangelist,  woman,  120,  3S7 

Executioner,  noble,  532 

Exile,  Polish,  262 

Explorer,  of  underworld,  304;  Eliza- 
bethan, 383;  companion  of  Co- 
lumbus, 536;  in  Antarctic,  563; 
among  the  planets,  664 

Family,  poor,  157,  159,  617;  Luth- 
eran, 418;   French,  658;   Swiss,  675 

Fanatic,  religious,  120,  433,  499,  700 

Farmer,  Transcendentalists,  557; 
farm  girl,  580;  farmer  saves  fugi- 
tive slave,  589;  land-speculating, 
656 

Father,  self-sacrificing,  27;  unhappy, 
122;  brutal,  149;  incestuous,  154; 
conscience-stricken,  163;  loving, 
333''  swindhng,  337;  stern,  344, 
347,  415;  scapegrace,  379,  426; 
blackleg,  killed  by  son,  423; 
wicked,  454;  judge  sentences  son, 
473;  becomes  boy,  484;  hot- 
headed, 659;    Russian,  678 

Faun,  reincarnation  of,  558 

Forger,  woman,  369;  literary,  485, 
496,  574,  583 

Foundling,  squire  adopts,  206,  273; 
rescued  from  thieves,  339;  adopted 
by  miser,  380 ;  exploited  by  juggler, 
687;  girl,  688;   prostitute,  696 

French,  see  Parisian 

Friend,  false,  445,  501;  man  resigns 
wife  to,  504;  journalist  and  artist, 
513;  changes  to  lover,  622 

Gambler,  36;  titled,  248;  aged,  341; 
365;  princess,  507,  605;  Western, 
612 

Gipsy,  Spanish,  61 ;  French,  63,  girl, 
125 ;  English  types,  309;  girl,  in  love 
with  minister,  499 

Girl,  self-sacrificing,  148,  196,  347, 
488,  505;  religious,  34;  romantic, 
38;  noble-born  working  girl,  78; 
self-willed,  87,  269;  schoolgirl,  loi, 
585;  wronged  girl,  126,  202,  246, 
345,  517;  husband-seeking,  139, 
662;  heroine  of  siege,  147;  repent- 
ant, 187,  189;  dependent,  188,  409; 
untutored,  clever,  221;  terror- 
stricken,  224, 225;  blind,  290;  gam- 
bler's granddaughter,  341;  fisher 
girl,  354;  orphan,  377;  wayward, 
378;    light-minded,  387;  discinle  of 


Savonarola,  390;  philanthropic, 
395;  saves  life  of  bachelor,  400;  in- 
tellectual, 421,  501;  clever,  436; 
English,  in  America,  427;  victim- 
ized, 454;  Australian  girls,  460; 
disguised  as  boy,  471,  505;  witli 
prenatal  affinity  to  snakes,  566; 
flower  girl,  574;  farm  girl,  580; 
changes  views  of  clergyman,  582; 
saved  by  journalist,  587;  wail" 
adopted  by  lamplighter,  588;  Knick- 
erbocker, 597;  nurse  in  Civil  War, 
613;  unsophisticated  American, 
abroad,  619;  coal-mining  lass,  346; 
tomboy,  636;  orphan  adopted  b\- 
doctor,  637;  Italian  American,  645; 
Acadian,  698;  loves  atheist,  700. 
(See  also  Woman.) 

Goldsmith,  philanthropic,  243 

Gothic  types,  382,  402 

Governess,  in  love  with  husband  of 
maniac,  373,  396,  640 

Greek  types,  382 

Grocer,  aristocrat -hating,  635 

Guardian,  faithful,  248,  567;  eccen- 
tric, 351;   rival  guardians,  357 

Gunmaker,  584 

Heir,  mean,  326;  kidnapped,  470,  472 

Heiress,  suspicious,  84,  357,  370; 
proud,  374;  romantic,  421;  in  dis- 
guise, 516;  saved  by  guardian,  567; 
American,  marries,  foreign  dilet- 
tante, 620 

Hero,  I,  2,  3;  dissolute,  349;  Saxon, 
386;  Icelandic,  431;  heroes  of  Se- 
poy rebellion,  465;  Albanian,  614; 
Revolutionary,  672 

Heroine  of  siege,  147 

Highland  chief,  234;  laird,  457 

Horticulturists,  rival,  57 

Humorist,  Scotch,  498 

Hunchback,  63 

Husband,  forgiving,  123;  mismated, 
165,  169,  482;  reconciled,  195; 
jealous,  360,  392;  self-righteous, 
372;  of  maniac,  373;  reunited  with 
wife,  379;  rascal,  390,  573;  selfish, 
413;   attempts  suicide,  602 

Hypnotist,  408.     (See  also  Charlatan.) 

Hypocrite,  343 

Idealist,  thwarted,  128 

Idler,    attractive,    174;     sleeper,    51S: 

shrewd,  656 
Impostor,  94 
Indian,  American,  13,  14;  chiefs,  522, 

525.  527,  53^>  .'i3(>,  537,  540.  541, 


I20 


SUBJECTS 


Character — Inventor 
to  Mountebank 


54S>  548,  553.  560,  561;  in  Califor- 
nia, 596;  in  Virginia,  670 

Inventor,  ruined,  30;  pirate,  93; 
wizard,  297;  mechanic  hounded  by 
trade-union,  362;  robbed  by  capi- 
talist, 581 

Insane,  gentleman  crazed  by  chivalrj-, 
144;  bride,  236,  268,  641;  half- 
witted waif,  340;  victims  of  private 
insane  asylum,  359;  wife,  373;  vil- 
lain, 409;  blank-minded  woman 
recovers  memory  of  murder,  462; 
Continental  soldiers,  524;  Indian- 
slaying  Quaker,  553;  lunatic  wrong- 
ly accused  of  murder,  556;  brother 
goes  mad  over  burying  sister  alive, 
564;  imbecile  prince,  628;  religious 
monomaniac,  661 

Irish,  blundering,  servant,  278;  lass 
in  America,  394 

Italian-American  types,  645 

Journalist,   33;    scheming,   136,   337; 

rising,    345,    463;    chum   of   artist, 

513;  saves  country  girl,  587;  rascal, 

606,  657;    in    siege  of  Paris,  667; 

Indiana,  669 
Jew,  prince,  313,  318;  exposes  villain, 

355;     types,    382;     Zionists,    393; 

quarter  in  London,  510;  hero,  591 
Jewess,    succoring,    238;     converted, 

294;  authoress,  510 
Judge,  sentences  son,  473;  wicked,  556 
Juggler,  687 

King,  bad,   117,   180;  245,  250,  297, 

299;    sentimental,  467,  503;    czar, 

584.     (See  also  Prince.) 
King-maker,  297 
Knight,  142,  238,  249,  253,  254,  494, 

good  and  bad  combat,  502;  German 

barons,  531;  Italian,  632 

Lamplighter,  adopts  waif,  588 

Laundress,  ennobled,  131 

Lawyer,  sharping,  326,  346;  judge, 
473;  wicked,  556;  convicts  capi- 
talist of  robbing  inventor,  581;  be- 
comes tailor,  700 

Libertine,  68,  71,  83,  118,  201,  202, 
217,  283,  284,  345,  387,  394,  451, 
490,  574,  618,  654,  68r,  682 

Librarian,  420 

Lover,  mediaeval  lovers,  5,  630;  faith- 
ful girl,  5,  330,  604;  boy  and  girl 
lovers,  10,  471,  500,  505,  593,  633, 
638,  687,  688,   692,  693,  695,  703; 


neurotic,  75;  opposing  affinities,  127; 
forsworn  woman,  151,  572;  world- 
weary  lovers,  164;  hopeless  lover, 
167;  fate-mastered,  170;  young 
ladies,  256-261 ;  lovers  separated  by 
religion,  276,  279;  eccentric,  305; 
broken-hearted  woman,  305 ;  predes- 
tined lovers,  380,  629;  jealous,  397; 
royal  lovers,  398;  proud  lover,  409; 
runaway  lovers,  415;  dream  lovers, 
434;  lovers  separated  by  false  friend, 
445;  self-sacrificing,  554,  571,  668; 
girl  saves  lover's  life,  610;  censori- 
ous, 619;  dying,  620;  lover  of  tem- 
perance reformer,  622 ;  lovers  change 
partners,  646;  Roman  lovers,  655; 
lover  slain  by  fiancd,  701.  (See  also 
Love.) 

Lunatic,  see  Insane 

Lutheran,  family,  418 

Magician,  303 

Man,  selfish  (see  Egotist);  passionate, 
70;  honorable,  176,  203,  606,  615, 
639;  strong-willed,  283;  under  a 
cloud,  285;  rich,  343;  good,  but 
unattractive,  370;  brave,  408;  sus- 
picious, 410;  self-made,  412,  432, 
607;  innocent,  accused  of  murder, 
452;  forgiving,  458;  with  double 
personality,  468;  English  traveler 
impersonates  a  king,  506;  marries 
mistress,  618;  subject  to  lapses  of 
memory,  624 

Maniac,  see  Insane 

Manufacturer,  indomitable,  3 1 ; 
ruined,  374;  self-made  man,  412, 
432,  607;  in  strike,  610 

Martyrs,  early  Christian,  702 

Master,  blundering,  338;  repentani. 
683 

Mechanic,  smith,  251;  oppressed  by 
trade-union,  347,  ;ib;^;  marries  evan- 
gelist, 387;  guninaker,  584.  (See 
also  Inventor,  Workingman.) 

Merchant,  ambitious  for  son,  344. 
(See  also  Manufacturer.) 

Mesmerist,  see  Hypnotist 

Miner,  108;  diamond,  364;  Western, 
612,659;  English  coal-miners,  634; 
engineer,  665 

Miser,  147;  weaver,  389;  robbed  by 
son,  437 

Mistress,  penitent,  379;  marries  lover, 
618.     (See  also  Courtesan.) 

Monster,  blood-drinking,  62;  created 
by  man,  277 

Mountebank,  disfigured,  66 


Character — Mother 
to  Bobb«r 


SUBJECTS 


121 


Mother,  repentant,  io6;  bad,  115; 
strong-minded,  132;  loving,  330, 
63s;  forges  deed  for  son's  sake, 
369;  wise,  378;  crippled,  498; 
grief  at  son's  death,  571;  opposes 
marriage  of  son  to  quadroon,  580 

Murderer,  poisoner,  153;  remorseful, 
222,  477;  educated,  288;  acciden- 
tal, of  mistress,  307;  moral,  of  wile, 
308;  moral,  558;  caught  through 
his  love,  625;  of  twin  brother,  690; 
Malay  thugs,  697;  fiance  kills  rival, 
701.    (See  also  Murder  in  Death.) 

Murderess,  298,  328;  would-be,  re- 
pents, 559.  (See  also  Murder  in 
Death.) 

Musician,  40,  146,  422,  475,  479,  564; 
prima  donna,  69,  365 ;  broken-down 
singer,  613;  tenor,  640;  paramour, 
682 

Mystic,  24,  509;  Rosicrucian,  296 

Negro,  hero,  3 ;  lovers,  198;  liberator, 
282;  self-sacrificing  girl,  488;  Afri- 
can queen  of  immortal  youth,  489; 
slaves,  570,571;  fugitive  quadroon 
saved  by  farmer,  589;  aids  Union 
men,  590;  doctor,  594;  Ku-Klux 
outrages,  609 ;  Creole  nurse,  644 

New  England,  types,  571,  573,  575, 
Bo.ston,  607;  Cape  Cod  folks,  651, 
661 

New  York  types,  519,  586,  592 

Nuree,  in  Civil  War,  613 

Nobleman,  infamous,  342;  P'rench, 
marries  Quakeress,  595 

Official,  honest  colonial,  689 
Outlaw,    238;     Highland,    470,    472; 

Englishman,  becomes  Indian  chief, 

650 
Opium-eater,  352 
Oriental  types,   249,  Hindus  recover 

stolen  amulet,  406 

Pacific  islanders,  578 

Parents,  loveless,  135;  melancholy, 
491.     (See  also  Father,  Mother.) 

Parisian  types,  boarding  house,  27; 
bohemians,  86;  Latin  Quarter,  102, 
306,  428,  435;  family,  658;  grisettes, 
667 

Patriot,  252,  263,  575.  (See  also 
Hero.) 

Peasant,  man,  loq;  woman,  179; 
girl,  the  model  of  artist,  627;  Rus- 
sian, 683 

Perjurer,  472 


Persian  theosophisl,  648 

Philanthropist,  goldJsmith,  243;  blind, 
690 

Philosopher,  Babylonian,  7;  |>agan 
woman,  382;  Transcendentalists, 
J57;  theosophist,  648.  (See  also 
Mystic.) 

Photographer,  exonerates  lunatic  of 
murder,  556 

Pioneer,  American,  265,  522,  525,  527, 
528,  535,  537,  540,  541,  544,  545' 
548, 551, 552,  553,  605,  639 

Pirate,  93,  239,  466,  526,  529,  542,  546, 
670 

Poet,  selfish,  30;  poets,  315;  labor 
agitator,  381;   book-store  clerk,  501 

Policeman,  son  kills  blackleg  father, 
423  _ 

Politician,  41,  118,  623;  carpet-bag- 
ger, 609;  reform,  666,  669.  (See 
also  Statesman.) 

Priest,  wicked,  15,  16,  255,  286,  424; 
benevolent,  64;  in  love,,  104; 
tempted,  160;  anchorite,  194;  ex- 
monk  marries,  512;  monks  in  drink- 
ing bout,  531;  cardinal,  660 

Prig,  reformed,  401 

Prince,  unfortunate,  182;  Jewish,  313, 
318;   "Lost  Dauphin,"  628 

Prisoner,  20;  for  debt,  348;  French, 
in  Scotland,  474 

Prizefighter,  loved  by  intellectual 
woman,  483 

Promoter,  300,  421 ;  visionary,  61 1 

Prostitute,  see  Courtesan 

Quakeress,  marries  French  nobleman, 

595 
Queen,  35,  48,  117,  241,  242;  unfor- 
tunate, 321;  brilliant,  467;  African, 
of  immortal  youth,  489;  Balkan, 
loved  by  English  traveller,  506,  66S; 
English  and  Scotch  rivals,  653; 
Russian,  676 

Rascal,  6,  94,  143,  145,  149,  227,  300, 

325,  343.  370.  390,  464,  573.  615 

Recluse,  deformed,  232 

Reformer,  social,  391,  438,  642,  684; 
temperance,  622 

Regicide,  of  Charles  L,  528 

Renegade,  Enghshman  becomes  In- 
dian chief,  650 

Revolutionist,  58;  Russian,  678,  679, 
685.     (See  also  History.) 

Robber,  London  thieves,  339;  thieves 
of  sacred  Oriental  jewel,  406.  (See 
^so  B.indit.  "i 


122 


SUBJECTS 


Character — Roman 
Types  to  Woman 


Roman  types,  402;   convert  to  Chris- 
tianity, 443;  rival  of  Jew,  591 
Rosicrucian,  296 
Russian  types,  676-685 

Sailor,  indomitable,  65;  resourceful, 
199;  keeps  log  in  War  of  1812,  272; 
officer,  274;  lover,  357;  mutineers, 
459;  retired  sea-captain,  508;  rich 
boyascommon,  514;  pilot,  523,  694; 
sea-captain,  534,  547;  admirals,538; 
searchers  for  treasure,  549;  among 
savages,  578;  whaler,  579;  rescues 
former  sweetheart,  618;  tyrannical 
sea-captain,  674;  Hungarian  boat 
captain,  691.     (See  also  Pirate.) 

Scholar,  absent-minded,  300 

Schoolmaster,  161;  cruel,  340;  des- 
pised, by  heiress,  374;  man  and 
woman,  376;  Yankee,  519 

Schoolmistress,  376,  384 

Scotch  types,  580 

Servant,  chaste  girl,  201;  loyal,  236; 
blundering,  278;  clever,  338;  de- 
vout, 408;  girl,  478;  avenges  master, 
576;  becomes  mistress,  618;  saved 
by  master,  683 ;  murderous  girl,  686 

Shoemaker,  self-sacrificing,  645 

Sister,  faithful,  235,  356,  636;  sisters 
in  love,  257,  371,  388;  Australian, 
460;  subject  of  her  brother's  magic, 
509;  four  sisters,  599;  rivals  in 
love,  607,  665 

Smith,  brave,  251 

Social  functionar}',  poor,  429 

Soldier,  comrades-in-arms,  43,  45,  47; 
humane,  67;  private,  no;  English 
in  Scotland,  220;  religious,  233; 
mercenary,  237;  self-sacrificing, 
444;  German  officer,  455;  Scotch, 
in  mediaeval  France,  461 ;  heroes  of 
Sepoy  rebellion,  465;  French  gen- 
tleman, 480;  student,  505;  British 
in  American  Revolution,  524,  559; 
Continental,  559,  560,  561,  672; 
Russian,  676 

Son,  cruel,  137;  avenging,  135;  noble, 
228,  454;  thoughtless,  330;  good, 
337,  429,  659;  policeman,  kills 
blackleg  father,  423;  rascal,  437, 
659;  sentenced  to  death  by  father, 
473;  lo\'ingboy,  635;  Russian,  678; 
wayward,  686 

Southern  (U.  S.)  types,  visionary  pro- 
moter, 611;  poor,  proud  family, 
617,  633;  Kentucky,  639;  Georgia, 
656 

Spendthrift,  335 


Spy,  female,  21;  in  American  Revo- 
lution, 521 

Squire,  simple-minded,  144 

Statesman,  ruined  by  woman,  162; 
young,  316,  317;  premier,  320. 
(See  also  Politician.) 

Step-mother,  wicked,  441 

Subject,  loyal,  250 

Swiss  types,  453;  family,  675 

Theosophist,  Persian,  648 
Thief,  see  Bandit,  Robber 
TranscendentaKsts  as  farmers,  557 
Traveller,  312,  562 
Tyrant,  doge  of  Venice,  530 

Usurer,  340,  341 

Ventriloquist,  325 

Villain,  218,  293,  302,  355,  365,  576, 
640,697;  seducer,  71,  574;  revenge- 
ful suitor,  379;  sacrilegious,  394; 
villains  and  victims,  403 ;  hypnotist, 
408;  insane,  409;  monster,  425; 
Borgia,  572;  capitalist  roVjs  inven- 
tor, 581;  libertine  pursues  fugitive 
quadroon,  589;  titled,  670;  repent- 
ant, 673;  step-larother  of  mute,  690. 
(See  also  Criminal,  Rascal.) 

Ward,  343;   neglected,  344 

Wife,  tempted,  68;  unfaithful,  81,  114, 
134,  150,  372,  681,  682;  cruel,  133; 
misraated,  i6g,  482;  reconciled, 
195,  379;  "child-wife"  and  "soul- 
mate,"  345;  suspected,  356;  de- 
ceiving, 363;  extravagant,  364;  dis- 
guised as  governess  of  her  children, 
366;  of  rascal,  390;  noble,  413; 
jealous,  447;  abused,  456;  free 
lover,  481;  intellectual,  of  prize- 
fighter, 483;  unwitting  bigamist, 
504;  of  ex-monk,  512;  shrew,  518; 
disguised,  follows  husband  to  sea, 
547;  adopts  child  of  husband's  mis- 
tress, 573;  separated  from  husband 
by  memory  of  early  love,  598 ;  gives 
her  blood  to  restore  husband  to  life, 
602;  of  rascally  journalist,  606; 
spurns  divorce,  615;  ambitious,  647 ; 
deserted,  654 

Witch,  52,  239,  279 

Woman,  ambitious,  23;  self-sacrific- 
ing, 26,  639;  perfect,  29;  revengeful, 
39,  50;  strong-minded,  76;  selfish, 
92.  533;  unhappy  in  love,  129; 
wicked,  192,  502;  loyal  peasant, 
179;  noble,  332;  eccentric  rich  old. 


Character — Woman- 
Hater,  to  Comedy 


SUBJECTS 


123 


350,  452;  good  aunt,  377;  \vidow  of 
unknown  antecedents,  397;  wicked 
stepmother,  441;  vivandiere,  444; 
crippled  Scotchwoman,  498;  inno- 
cent, convicted  of  murder,  550; 
inspires  murder,  558;  repents  of 
contemplated  murder,  559;  buried 
alive,  564;  college,  saves  youth  from 
burning,  568;  religious,  577;  wid- 
ows as  castaways,  600;  loves  dead 
man,  663.  (See  also  Actress,  Author- 
ess, Coquette,  Daughter,  Evangel- 
ist, Gipsy,  Girl,  Governess,  Heiress, 
Jewess,  Laundress,  Lover,  Mis- 
tress, Mother,  Murderess,  Nurse, 
Quakeress,  Queen,  Servant,  Sister, 
Wife,  Witch,  Working-giri.) 

Woman-hater,  365 

Woodsman,  rescues  persecuted  inven- 
tor, 581;  befriends  boy,  657 

Working-girl,  noble-bom,  78;  laun- 
dress, 131;  loves  employer,  610. 
(See  also  Servant.) 

Workingman,  honest,  74;  strikers, 
610.  (See  also  Farmer,  Mechanic, 
Peasant,  Servant.) 

Yachtsman,  395,  665 

Yeoman,  411 

Youth,  brave,  5;  ambitious,  37,  310, 
311;  proud,  100;  boy  Crusoe,  257; 
influenced  by  women,  289,  332; 
spirited,  340,  343;  half-witted,  340, 
342;  dying,  344;  aristocratic,  ruins 
poor  girl,  345;  aids  convict,  350; 
wandering,  358;  chimney-sweep, 
385;  schoolboys,  399 ;  college,  414; 
kidnapped  heir,  470,  472;  boy 
suddenly  becomes  man,  484;  beau- 
tiful but  vicious,  490;  rich  boy  as 
common  sailor,  514;  wolf-boy,  515; 
with  antipathy  to  young  women, 
568;  impish,  603,  6r6;  foundlings, 
687;  Norwegian,  692,  693,  695; 
children  on  Boer  farm,  703.  (See 
also  Lover,  Man.) 

Zionists,  393. 

Charity,  see  Philanthropy 

Chastity,  woman  resists  outlaw,  70; 
princess  risks  virtue  to  save  city,  82; 
girl  chaste  in  soul  though  not  in 
body,  102;  of  tempted  \vife,  149;  of 
tempted  anchorite,  194;  of  tempted 
servant  girl,  201 ;  of  tempted  young 
man,  204';    of  Irish  emigrant  lass, 


394;  equal  duty  of  man  and  woman 
to  be  chaste,  ^  51,  553,  684 

Chemistry,  drug  changes  man  to 
villain,  468;  girl  studies,  613 

Child-bearing,  advantages  of,  m; 
purpose  of  marriage,  134,  135;  ob- 
stetrics, 209 

Childhood,  see  Girl  and  i''outh  in 
Character 

Chivalr>',  the  Cid,  142;  satire  of  144, 
215;  mediseval  feuds  in  Italy,  152, 
in  mediaeval  Great  Britain,  238,  251, 
254;  Crusades,  238,  248,  249,  253; 
War  of  Roses,  471,  French  noble- 
man under  Henr}'  IV.,  480;  English 
troop  in  Spain,  494;  mediajval 
romance,  502;  Richard  L,  503. 
(See  also  History.) 

Christianity,  see  Religion 

Church,  The,  sec  Religion 

Combat,  sailor's  fight  vrith  octopus, 
65;  knightly,  152,  153,  155,  238, 
248,  249,  251,  253,  254;  knight's 
fight  with  tiger  and  orang-utan,  253; 
mediaeval  feuds,  291 ;  pugilism,  309, 
483;  outlaw  father  kills  policeman 
son,  423;  outlaw  fights  ghost,  431; 
mayor  fights  rival  in  love,  450; 
seekers  for  buried  treasure  fight 
fjirates,  466;  naval,  523,  526,  529, 
538,  539.  542,  543;  Indian,  525, 
527,  528,  535,  537,  540,  548,  561, 
670;  timber-stealer  fights  surveyor, 
544;  South  American  revolution, 
655.     (See  also  History.) 

Comedy,  coquette  fixes  her  escapades 
on  friend,  18;  heiress  makes  love  to 
poet,  who  sends  his  secretary  to 
impersonate  him,  38;  girl  di.sguised 
as  cavalier,  76;  escapades  of  Paris- 
ian students,  86;  man  falls  in  love 
with  his  grandchild,  91;  boastful 
lion-hunter,  113;  prayer  of  girl  for 
husband  strangely  granted,  141; 
demented  knight-errant,  144;  heir- 
ess disguised  as  man  enters  monas- 
ter)', 158;  young  man  resists  seduc- 
tion, 204;  ser\-ant  conceals  poverty 
of  master,  236;  young  naval  ofiicer 
attempts  to  practice  "equal  rights" 
on  shipboard,  274;  boarding  house, 
334,  453;  widower  marries  stage- 
dancer,  336;  guardian  pretends  to 
he  avaricious  to  cure  money-worship- 
ing warri  (girl),  351;  actress  poses  as 
portrait  to  confound  art  critics,  353; 
proud  woman  found  to  have  been 
cook,   354;    woman  wins  resisting 


124 


SUBJECTS 


Comradeship 
to  Death 


bachelor,  400;  college  pranks  and 
vacation  love-making,  414;  rich 
woman  tests  heirs  by  disguising 
herself  as  poor,  452;  boy  and  father 
magically  exchange  places,  484; 
statue  of  Venus  comes  to  life  and 
makes  love  to  barber,  486;  statue 
of  god  of  mischief  plays  hob  in 
artist's  studio,  487;  sea-captain, 
attempting  to  get  his  son  "  crimped," 
is  crimped  himself,  508;  man  after 
sleeping  twenty  years,  finds  mar- 
vellous changes  in  village,  518; 
lover  scares  off  rival  by  pretending  to 
be  headless  horseman,  510;  man 
too  busy  to  make  love  at  right  time, 
finds  woman  too  busy  when  he  does 
take  time,  533;  widows  run  board- 
ing house  on  deserted  island,  600; 
old  aunt  supports  railroad  promoter 
who  thinks  he  is  the  benefactor,  61 1 ; 
enfant  terrible  as  Cupid,  616;  mul- 
tifarious uses  of  opera  cloak  in  poor 
aristocratic  family,  617;  aristocrat- 
hating  grocer  is  patronized  by  no- 
bihty,  635;  cardinal  uses  snuff-box 
to  reconcile  lovers,  660 

Comradeship,  see  Friendship 

Conjugal  Relations,  see  Husband  and 
Wife,  in  Character;  Martiage 

Conscience,  perverted,  95.  (See  also 
Repentance.) 

Coquetry,  see  Coquette  in  Character 

Cosmogony,  Norse,  4 

Crime,  satire  of  exaltation  of  crimi- 
nals, 200,  328,  329;  career  of  Jack 
Sheppard,  322.  (See  also  Arson; 
Criminal  in  Character;  Murder  in 
Death;  Forgery.) 

Crime,  detection  of,  7,  42,  56,  64,  90, 
'  95.  97.  98,  222,  352,  355,  403,  404, 
405,  406,  407,  462,  493,  497,  527, 
532.  550,  574,  581,  604,  625,  697 

Cruelty,  toward  husband  by  wife,  23, 
481,  602,  647;  toward  child  by 
mother,  2^,  106,  115;  toward  man 
by  beloved,  25,  32,  84,  189, 350, 374; 
toward  woman  by  beloved,  26,  2;^, 
148,  475,  490,  601;  toward  father 
by  daughters,  27,  122;  persecution 
of  girls  by  relatives,  34,  409 ;  toward 
poor  relation,  39,  40;  persecution  of 
ex-convict,  64;  mountebanks  maim 
foundling,  66;  toward  convicts,  72, 
355,  684;  toward  hospital  patients, 
72;  toward  brother  by  sister,  87; 
toward  captives  by  bandit,  92;  to- 
ward man   by  mistress,    119,    162; 


toward  man  by  wife,  133;  toward 
wife  by  husband,  136,  171,  329,  372, 
397.  403,  407,  451.  456;  toward 
mother  by  son,  137;  toward  brother 
by  brother,  137;  toward  daughter 
by  father,  149  (4),  426;  torture,  154; 
of  Inquisition,  268;  toward  child  by 
father,  163, 344,  347;  toward  depend- 
ent girl  by  woman,  188;  toward 
negroes,  198,  384,  540,  571,  589, 
609;  persecution  of  vicar,  217;  to- 
ward girl  by  outlaws,  224,  225; 
toward  foundling  in  workhouse,  339 ; 
toward  nephew  by  uncle,  340,  470; 
toward  waif  by  schoolmaster,  340; 
toward  old  man  and  grandchild 
by  usurer,  341;  toward  the  in- 
sane, 359;  toward  adopted  boy, 
380;  mob  tears  woman  to  pieces, 
382;  toward  sister  by  brother, 
388,  569;  toward  man  by  cousin, 
401,  toward  son  by  father,  415, 
473;  toward  ward  by  guardian, 
425,  471;  toward  poor  boy,  432; 
toward  his  victim  by  hypnotist,  435 ; 
toward  girl  by  stepmother,  441,  703; 
toward  mother-in-law,  by  woman, 
449;  toward  castaways  by  muti- 
neers, 459;  toward  child  by  human 
fiend,  468;  toward  good  brother  by 
bad,  469;  toward  old  man  become 
schoolboy,  484;  toward  Indians  by 
whites,  540,  541,  553,  596;  toward 
fellow  heirs  by  judge,  556;  bereaved 
mother  charges  God  vrith,  571;  to- 
ward inventor  by  capitalist,  581; 
toward  Southern  Unionists,  590;  out- 
rages of  "white-caps,"  669;  of  sea- 
captain,  674 ;  abuses  of  Javanese  by 
Dutch  olTicials,  689;  toward  wa}- 
ward  girl  by  organized  charity,  696 
religious  fanatic  brands  atheist 
700;  ancient  Christian  martyrs,  702 
(See  also  Infidelity,  Marital;  Jeal 
ousy;  Revenge.) 

Dancing,  church  opposes,  638;  Nor- 
xvegian,  695 

DEATH 

Personification  of,  172 

Accidental,  in  wreck,  10;  in  hunting, 
11;  of  Henry  II.,  in  tourney,  51; 
child  drowns,  169;  Shelley  drowns, 
315;  usurer  drovmed,  341;  maniac 
wife  burned,  373;  brother  and  sister 
drown,  388;  forger  burned,  403; 
bad  man  entombed  alive  in   tree, 


Deatb — Execution 
to  Non- Violent 


SUBJECTS 


"5 


425;  heroic  husband  drowTied,  442; 
wife  drowns  with  paramour,  449; 
husband  and  wife  drown,  457;  man 
buried  alive,  469;  repentant  mur- 
derer dies  saving  hfe,  477;  negrogirl 
gives  up  life  to  save  white  explor- 
ers, 488;  princess  with  gift  of  youth 
perishes  in  magical  flame,  489; 
magical  death  of  murderer,  490;  of 
duellist,  495;  electrical  adept  killed 
by  lightning,  509;  of  ruffian,  554; 
woman  buried  alive,  564;  madman 
buried  under  falling  house,  564;  of 
sailors  in  whahng,  579;  girl  en- 
tombed alive  in  secret  chamber,  624 ; 
child  burns  to  death,  644;  shoe- 
maker drowns  in  rescuing  kitttn, 
645;  sailor  perishes  in  saving  life, 
651;  master  and  servant  freeze  to 
death,  683 ;  converted  atheist  burned 
to  death  in  rescuing  holy  relic,  700 

Execution  of  murderous  priest,  15;  of 
woman  spy,  21,  43;  of  Cliarles  I., 
45 ;  of  Marie  Antoinette,  54,  60, 130, 
182;  of  De  Witt  brothers  of  Holland, 
57;  of  Louis  XVI.,  60,  130,  182; 
invention  of  guillotine,  59;  of  witch, 
63;  of  humane  general  for  treason, 
67 ;  hanged  man  resuscitated,  9 1 ;  of 
murderers  of  Count  Cenci,  154;  of 
thief,  205,  322;  of  murderer,  222; 
of  William  Wallace,  263;  of  Jesus 
Christ,  266;  of  Eugene  Aram,  288; 
of  victims  of  French  Revolution,  296, 
349;  of  Lady  Jane  Grey,  321; 
murderess,  328,  451;  of  Savonarola, 
390;  of  Christian  martyrs,  443, 
703 ;  character  of  executioner,  532 

In  Combat,  Hector,  i;  of  knights,  153; 
in  duel,  46,  71,  87,  189,  202,  218, 
264,  474;  of  soldier,  99,  429;  of 
rioter,  317;  outlaw  done  to  death 
by  ghost,  431;  blind  man  killed  in 
battle,  513;  of  lunatic  and  simpleton 
in  Revolutionary  War,  524;  of 
Indian  chief,  525;  of  admiral  in 
sea-fight,  538;  of  red-coat  in  Revo- 
lution, 559;   of  lover  in  Civil  War, 

575 
Murder,  victim  of  priest,  15,  16; 
husband  executes  traitorous  wife, 
43;  assassination  of  Bussy  d'Am- 
boise,  49;  assassination  of  Henry 
III.,  50;  lover  kills  g>psy,  61 ;  hus- 
band kills  wife  to  save  her  from 
becoming  prostitute,  89 ;  mysterious, 
Qo,  97,  342,  352,  493,  625;  doctor 
kills  usurer,  95;    of  seducer,   123, 


473;  mother  kills  bad  son-in-law, 
132;  father  kills  daughter's  para- 
mour, 150;  assassination  in  feuds., 
152;  of  Count  Cenci,  154;  fairy 
wife  kills  mortal  husband,  171; 
father  kills  child,  218;  mother  kills 
child,  235,  387;  bride  kills  husband, 
236;  Earl  of  Leicester  murders  wife, 
242;  of  villain,  248;  assassination 
of  Duke  of  Burgundy,  252 ;  murder- 
ous monk  carried  away  by  Devil, 
255;  son  kills  those  who  had  mal- 
treated his  parents,  271;  man-mon- 
ster kills  his  creator,  277;  of  gambler, 
284;  assassination  of  Rienzi,  291; 
villains  assassinate  lady,  292;  ma- 
niac kills  assassin,  293;  Jew  kills 
daughter,  a  Christian  convert,  294; 
murderess  poisons  son  by  mistake, 
238;  Englishman  murders  Arabian 
sorcerer,  303;  Pausanias slays  mis- 
tress by  mistake,  307;  husband 
causes  secret  wife  to  be  slain,  308; 
thief  kills  mistress,  339;  mob  as- 
sassinates Hypatia,  38.:;  assassina- 
tion of  Lord  Darnley,  398;  hus- 
band kills  wife's  double,  403; 
secret  society  kills  traitor,  403;  of 
villainous  husband,  419;  outlaw 
kills  policeman,  his  son,  423;  son 
murders  traducer  of  mother,  434; 
lover  kills  rival,  448;  wife  kills  her 
betrayer,  45 1 ;  of  miser,  452;  blind 
man  witnesses  a  murder,  462 ;  man 
kills  his  cousin,  477;  man  kills 
painter  of  his  portrait,  400;  of  Mor- 
mon, 493;  clergyman  kills  father  of 
girl  he  seduced,  497;  of  emigrant, 
527;  of  betrothed  man,  532;  Indian 
kills  insulter,  540,  541;  timber  thief 
kills  surveyor,  544;  mad  Quaker 
massacres  Indians,  553;  Italian  and 
American  artist  (woman)  murder 
man,  558:  drunkard  commits  mur- 
der, 565;  servant  kills  master's 
enemy,  576;  mulatto  doctor  assas- 
sinated, 594;  man  killed  by  strikers, 
604;  wife  kills  would-be  seducer, 
636;  parricide,  673;  husband  kills 
wife  and  her  seducer,  682;  fratricide, 
690;  assassination  by  East  Indian 
thugs,  607;  fiance  kills  lover  of 
betrothed,  701 
Non-violent,  of  courtesan,  8,  88,  102; 
of  lover,  10,  13,  66,  128,  148,  156, 
159,  170,  210,  305,  380,  430,  446, 
481,  505,  536,  554,  620,  663,  701; 
of  self-indulgent  man,  22;  of  mclan- 


1^6 


SUBJECTS 


Death — Suicide, 
to  Destiny 


choly  bereaved  sister,  87;  of  con- 
sumptive courtesan,  88;  of  child, 
106,  163,  293,  341,  344,  491.  570;  of 
millionaire,  u6;  of  gipsy  girl,  125; 
of  mother,  128,  420,  491;  of  priest, 
160;  of  preacher  and  wife,  178;  of 
king's  mistress,  179;  of  recluse,  188; 
of  wronged  girl,  202,  246,  517;  of 
bride  of  Wallace,  263;  of  wife  in 
love  with  paramour,  283;  of  Jewish 
"Prince  of  the  Captivity,"  313;  of 
Byron,  315;  of  false  heir  in  debtor's 
prison,  326;  of  father,  333;  of  child 
wife,  345;  of  estranged  wife,  366; 
of  penitent  mistress,  379;  of  labor 
agitator,  381;  of  unfaithful  hus- 
band, 390,  573;  of  jealous  husband, 
392;  of  drunken  husband,  397,  454; 
of  victim  of  insolence,  401;  of 
hated  husband,  404;  of  shocked 
wife,  415;  of  hypnotist  and  his  vic- 
tim, 435;  of  mayor,  his  wfe,  and 
his  rival's  wife,  450;  bad  wife,  475; 
of  author,  485;  murderous  derg\'- 
man,  dies  in  pulpit,  497;  of  shrew, 
518;  of  lost  daughter,  528;  wicked 
judge  is  stricken  dead,  556;  of  girl 
cured  of  prenatal  evil,  566;  of  poor 
young  husband,  569;  of  old  man 
charged  with  murder,  574;  of  In- 
dians maltreated  by  whites,  596;  of 
worthless  husband,  615;  of  Ameri- 
can girl  abroad,  619;  of  aged  hus- 
band of  young  wife,  636;  of  un- 
loved husband,  639;  of  insane 
bride,  641;  of  English  sweetheart 
of  Persian  adept,  648;  of  husband 
of  deserted  wife,  654;  of  reformed 
fortune-hunting  girl,  662 
Suicide,  lover,  65,  66,  104,  149,  164, 
167,  490,  559,  627,  654;  of  man  who 
had  convicted  friend  of  treason,  67; 
of  wife  of  slain  man,  71;  of  unfaith- 
ful wife,  81,  103;  race  suicide,  in; 
of  ruined  man,  114;  of  husband  of 
religious  fanatic,  120;  of  Academi- 
cian, 121;  husband  of  dead  wife, 
128;  of  governess  and  father  of 
dro\\Tied  child,  169;  of  madman, 
268;  of  wicked  father,  340,  574; 
of  would-be  parricide,  343;  of 
seduced  girl,  345;  of  adventuress, 
405 ;  of  lover  of  supposed  thief,  406; 
of  man  with  double  personaUty,  468; 
suicide-pact,  495;  husband  makes 
way  with  himself  to  leave  wife  free 
to  marry  another,  504;  mulatto 
nurse  perishes  with  child  in  burning 


house,  644;  husband  driven  to 
death  by  bad  wfe,  647;  of  jealous 
woman,  649;  of  suitor,  to  give  free 
field  to  friend,  his  rival,  650;  of  wife 
neglected  by  paramour,  681;  of 
murderous,  jealous  servant-girl,  686 

Deception,  coquette  blames  her  esca- 
pades on  friend,  18;  secretary  im- 
personates poet,  38;  woman  dis- 
guised as  man,  52,  76, 149;  low-bom 
Jew  pretends  to  be  Hungarian 
noble,  94;  self-deception,  113;  man 
wins  wagers  by  stratagem,  149  (2); 
exiled  lover  returns  in  disgtiise,  149 
(3);  heiress  becomes  companion  to 
blind  man,  187;  subject  imper- 
sonates Charles  I.,  250;  false  father, 
269,  325;  vdie  deceives  husband 
as  to  paternity  of  child,  363;  runa- 
way wife  returns  in  disguise  to  be 
governess  of  child,  366;  woman 
robbed  of  inheritance  becomes  ad- 
venturess and  marries  heir,  404; 
middle-aged  adventuress  becomes 
young  in  looks  by  arts  of  "beauty 
doctor,"  405;  mother  poses  as 
maiden,  420;  heiress  poses  as  poor 
girl,  421,  516;  adventuress  commits 
arson  to  conceal  bigamy,  440;  rich 
woman  tests  heirs  by  disguising 
herself  as  poor,  452;  wife  disguises 
herself  as  twin  brother,  481 ;  criminal 
clergyman  by  disguise  throws  crime 
on  friend,  497;  lovers  tricked  at 
tr}'st,  500;  girl  escapes  in  disguise 
as  boy,  504;  double  of  king  saves 
him  by  impersonation,  506;  lover 
scares  rival  by  assuming  r6le  of 
headless  horseman,  519;  mistaken 
identity,  520;  wife  follows  husband 
to  sea  in  disguise,  547;  mad  Quaker 
murders  Indians  in  guise  of  spirit, 
553;  lover  takes  service  with  seducer 
to  unmask  him,  574;  woman  im- 
personates another  to  receive  inheri- 
tance, 66r;  thief  foists  daughter  on 
boy  as  his  sister,  687;  "double  life." 
691.  (See  also  Dupe  in  Charac- 
ter; Infidelity,  Marital.) 

Deformity,  man-monster,  62;  hunch- 
back bell-ringer,  63;  disfigured 
mountebank,  66;  desiccated  man 
with  broken  ear,  qi;  dwarf  (girl) 
loves  blind  man,  148;  dwarf  recluse, 
232;  dwarf  lover,  265;  crippled 
mother,  498 

Destiny,  see  Fate 


Detection  of  Crime 
to  Etblcs 


SUBJECTS 


127 


Detection  of  Crime,  see  Crime,  Detec- 
tion of 

Disaster,  Financial,  see  Ruin 

Disaster,  Moral,  see  Ruin 

Disaster,  physical,  maritime,  see  Sea, 
the;  volcanic  explosion,  170,  290; 
burning  building,  67,  373,  440,  644, 
700;  flood,  388;  fall  of  house,  564; 
earthquake  at  Lisbon,  618 

Disgrace,  see  Ruin 

Disguise,  see  Deception 

Divination,  by  witch,  52,  239,  279; 
CagUostro  foretells  fate  of  Marie 
Antoinette,  54;  by  dreams,  150 

Divorce,  see  Marriage 

Dreams,  divination  by,  150;  of  travel, 
312;   living  in,  434 

Drunkenness,  see  Temperance 

Duel,  8,  46,  71,  87,  133,  189,  202,  207, 
218,  236,  246,  285,  415,  474,  527. 
(Cf.  Combat.) 

Earthquake,  Pompeii,  290;  Lisbon, 
618 

Economics,  study  of,  defeated  by  love, 
165;  communism,  557.  (See  also 
Business,  Social  Reform,  Wealth.) 

Education,  advantage  of,  to  laborer, 
74;  sentimental,  83;  Italian  school- 
master, 161;  of  boy  on  philosophical 
principles,  209;  treatise  on,  220; 
traveler  teaches  assassin's  daughter, 
292;  abuses  of  private  schools,  340; 
runaway  wife  returns  in  disguise  to 
be  governess  of  child,  366;  English 
teacher's  experiences  in  Belgian 
school,  375,  376;  home,  377,  378; 
childish  lessons  in  natural  history 
and  morals,  385;  at  Rugby,  399; 
moral  education  of  young  man,  408, 
415;  student  Kfe  in  Paris,  428;  of 
the  poor,  438;  of  women,  481; 
man  becomes  schoolboy,  484; 
spoUed  rich  boy  made  man  of 
on  fishing  boat,  514;  guardian 
watches  over  moral  development  of 
ward,  5  67 ;  pit  girl  raises  herself  by 
study,  634.  (See  also  Scholar, 
Schoolmaster,  and  Schoolmistress 
in  Character.) 

Egotism,  see  Selfishness 

Electricity,  represented  as  divine 
power,  509 

Embezzlement,  see  Theft 

Emigration,  Irish,  394 

Engineering,  Panama  Canal  proposed, 
602 

Escape,  see  Rescue 


Etliics,  priest  shields  criminal,  64; 
general  commits  treason  to  save  life, 
67 ;  princess  risks  virtue  to  save  city, 
82;  sister  exposes  immoral  brother, 
causing  his  death,  87;  ethics  of 
bandit,  92;  doctor  murders  man 
who  proposes  murder  to  him,  95; 
girl  chaste  in  soul  though  not  in 
body,  102;  ethics  of  marriage,  134, 
135,  169,  481;  virtuous  man  tor- 
tures his  mother  and  her  bastard 
son,  137;  ethics  of  adultery,  149  (3), 
476;  woman  absolved  of  vow  of 
virginity,  151;  ethics  of  murder, 
163,308;  ethics  of  suicide,  164,  167; 
worship  of  criminals,  205,  328,  329; 
employee  denounces  kind  master 
as  murderer,  222 ;  avenger  kills  rela- 
tive of  his  beloved,  271;  man 
creates  human  monster  who  des- 
troys him,  277;  woman  lies  to  save 
sister,  356;  wife  deceives  husband 
to  circimivent  villain,  363;  gover- 
ness refuses  to  marry  husband  of 
maniac  wife,  373;  daughter  conceals 
mother's  theft,  384;  prig's  intol- 
erance of  cousin's  frailties  causes 
his  death,  401 ;  woman  marries  man 
to  secure  property  rightfully  hers, 
404;  Hindu  priests  recover  their 
property  by  crime,  406;  woman 
tricks  her  betrayer  into  marriage, 
407;  policeman  fights  criminal 
father,  423;  son  takes  on  himself 
crime  of  which  he  believes  father  is 
guilty,  429;  son  kills  mother's  tra- 
ducer,  434;  equal  duty  of  man  and 
woman  to  be  chaste,  451,  553,  684; 
allegory  of  good  and  evil  natures  in 
one  man,  468,  490;  judge  condemns 
son  to  death,  473;  ethics  of  mar- 
riage, 481,  482;  ethics  of  plagiarism, 
485;  man  fails  to  fulfill  suicide  pact, 
495;  sinning  preacher  denounces 
sin,  497;  ex-monk  breaks  vow  of 
celibacy,  512;  ethics  of  property  in 
land,  544,  545,  684;  ethics  of  prop- 
erty in  man,  570,  571,  589,  590;  eth- 
ics of  wealth,  592;  man  refuses  to 
allow  beloved  to  sacrifice  herself  for 
her  sister,  607;  preaching  as  a  busi- 
ness, 652;  woman  suppresses  truth 
to  gain  inheritance  rightfully  but 
not  legally  hers,  661 ;  lawyer  defends 
man  he  believes  guilty,  700.  (See 
also  Chastity,  Deception,  Forgive- 
ness, Heroism,  Revenge,  Sclf- 
Sacrifice.) 


128 


SUBJECTS 


Family  Relations 
to  Heroism 


Family  Relations;  see  Brother, 
Daughter,  Father,  Husband, 
Mother,  Sister,  Son,  Wife,  in 
Character. 

Famine,  in  siege,  147 

Farming,  English  rustic  life,  448-45 1 ; 
colony  of  philosophers,  557;  farm- 
girl,  580;  in  South  Africa,  703. 
(See  also  Farmer  and  Peasant  in 
Character.) 

Fate,  measures  life  of  man,  22;  de- 
crees man's  love,  170;  decrees 
man's  madness,  268;  inherited 
afl&nity  of  boy  and  girl,  380;  fulfil- 
ment of  prophecy,  556,  576;  house 
falls  at  death  of  inmates,  564;  girl 
meets  fate  of  prototype,  629 

Feuds,  mediaeval,  152,  155,  291 

Fidelity,  see  Loyalty 

FiUal  Relations,  see  Daughter  and  Son 
in  Character 

Floriculture,  prisoner  grows  flower,  20; 
tulip  mania,  57;  gardening,  361; 
flower-girl,  574;  magic  flower,  559. 
(See  also  Botany.) 

Forgery,  business,  119,  361,  403,  574, 
581;  of  manuscripts,  121;  of  deed, 
369;  by  adventuress,  405;  by 
brother,  444;  plagiarism,  485;  of 
will,  583.     (See  also  Deception.) 

Forgiveness,  husband  forgives  wife's 
love  for  tutor,  9;  wronged  women 
forgive  betrayer,  15;  jilted  girl  aids 
lover,  26;  wife  forgives  jealous  hus- 
band, 149,  356;  friend  forgives 
sharper,  214;  old  man  forgives  heir, 
343 ;  daughter  forgives  cruel  father, 
344;  wife  forgives  erring  husband, 
353.  360,  379.  415;  fisher  lass  for- 
gives proud  mother  of  her  lover,  354; 
husband  forgives  wife,  364,  366,  481, 
482;  girl  forgives  repentant,  sacri- 
legious lover,  394;  man  spares 
enemy  who  is  at  his  mercy,  450,  458; 
man  forgives  deceiving  beloved,  516 

Fortune-hunting,  lover,  26,  132,  133, 
329,421;  woman,  662 

Fraternal  Relations,  see  Brother  and 
Sister  in  Character 

Friendship,  of  husband  for  wife's 
lover,  9,  356;  of  antiquary  and 
musician,  40;  of  four  soldiers,  43, 
45,  47;  of  Frederick  the  Great  and 
Voltaire,  181;  of  old  recluse  (wo- 
man) and  girl,  188;  man  rescues 
friend  who  had  misused  him,  214; 
gold-miners,  355;  of  former  lovers, 
358;  of  old  and  young  Jew,  393;  of 


young  girl  and  boyish  lord,  410;  of 
artists  in  Paris,  435 ;  falsity  in,  445 ; 
of  boy  and  outlaw,  470,  47;*;  of  boy 
and  girl  disguised  as  boy,  451;  of 
tenor  and  married  woman  disguised 
as  twin  brother,  481 ;  of  author  and 
woman,  496;  of  rivals  in  love,  504; 
of  boys  and  girls,  599;  of  widow 
and  lover,  622;  of  actress  and 
former  lover,  693 

Gambling,  man  bets  he  will  seduce 
friend's  wife,  149;  wife  of  losing 
gambler  wins  fortune,  365;  on 
horse  races,  478;  Russian  govern- 
ment interferes  with  marriage  of 
gambling  princess,  507;  in  mining 
camp,  612.  (See  also  Gambler  in 
Character.) 

Gardening,  see  Floriculture 

Geography,  see  Index  on  page  114  of 
Proper  Names:  II.  Places. 

Ghost,  see  Magic 

Giants,  see  Magic 

Gipsies,  see  Gipsy  in  Character 

Goldsmith,  see  Banking 

Government,  see  Politics 

Gratitude,  convict  aided  to  escape  by 
boy,  makes  him  his  heir,  350;  of 
Indian,  540;  of  prostitute  to  noble 
defender,  684 

Grief,  for  dead  love,  8,  10,  11,  14,  15, 
16,  88,  128,  156,  167,  170,  219,  434, 
624;  for  dead  brother,  87;  for 
estranged  daughters,  122;  of  es- 
tranged lover,  125,  445;  of  deserted 
woman,  129,  171;  '•iinaway  vnfe  re- 
turns to  be  governess  of  child,  366; 
anguish  of  unloved  husband,  481; 
of  parents  for  dead  child,  491. 
(See  also  Suicide  in  De.a.th;  Repent- 
ance; Self -Sacrifice.) 

Happiness,  reward  of  labor  and  child- 
bearing,  in;  of  philanthropy,  173; 
secret  of,  208 

Heroism,  in  Trojan  war,  i;  in  Latin 
war,  2;  of  Arabian  chief,  3;  of 
young  lover,  5 ;  of  woman  spy,  2 1 ; 
of  comrades-in-arms,  44,  45,  47;  of 
bravo,  49;  at  storming  of  the  Bas- 
tile,  58;  of  hunchback,  63;  of  con- 
vict, 64;  of  sailor,  65;  of  mounte- 
bank, 66;  of  opposing  generals,  67; 
of  outlaw,  70;  of  Carthaginian 
princess,  82;  mock-heroism,  113; 
the  Cid,  142;  heroine  of  siege  of 
Saragossa,  147;  of  negro  prince  and 


History— Ancient 
to  Icelandic 


SUBJECTS 


129 


princess,  198;  of  sister  of  child- 
murderess,  235;  of  Scotch  soldier 
in  France,  245;  of  armorer,  251; 
of  Crusaders,  253;  William  Wallace, 
263;  Toussaint,  282;  of  robber, 
287;  blind  girl  of  Pompeii,  290; 
Rienzi,  291;  son  repudiates  bad 
father,  337;  fisher  lass  saves  artist 
from  drowning,  354;  son  refuses 
farm  procured  by  mother's  forgery, 
and  stands  by  her,  369;  husband 
burned  in  vain  attempt  to  rescue 
maniac  wife,  373;  of  Elizabethan 
sea-captains,  383;  Here  ward  the 
Wake,  386;  moral  and  physical 
courage  at  school,  399;  girl  saves 
life  of  sailor,  430;  Icelandic  outlaw, 
431;  life-savers,  442;  of  English- 
man in  French  army,  and  vivan- 
diere,  444;  Joan  of  Arc,  461;  girl 
repudiates  perjured  father,  472; 
man  saves  girl  from  her  folly,  476; 
outcast  saves  community,  477;  spy 
in  American  Revolution,  521;  John 
Paul  Jones,  523;  of  admiral,  538; 
Lord  Nelson,  539;  surveyor  killed 
by  timber-thief,  544;  girl  saves 
doctor  from  snakes,  566;  girl  saves 
young  man  from  burning  building, 
568;  heroine  of  fire  at  sea,  588; 
mistress  saves  lover  in  Lisbon 
earthquake,  618;  pit  girl  saves  life 
of  engineer,  634;  negro  nurse  dies 
rescuing  child,  644;  shoemaker 
drowns  rescuing  kitten,  645;  in 
Afghan  war,  648;  schoolboy  life- 
saver,  651 ;  militia  captain  in  strike, 
666;  atheist  dies  in  rescuing  cross 
from  burning  church,  700.  (See 
also  Self-Sacrifice.) 

HISTORY 

(See  also  Index  of  Proper  Names 
— Persons,  page  109.) 

Ancient:  Trojan  war,  i;  founding  of 
Latin  kingdom,  2;  Carthage,  82, 
655;  Egypt,  173,  264,  382;  destruc- 
tion of  Pompeii,  290;  Sparta,  307; 
Honorius  of  Roman  Empire,  402; 
Roman  persecution  of  Christians, 
443,  702;  Roman  rule  in  Palestine, 
591;  Hannibal,  655. 

Australian:  discovery  of  gold,  355 

British:  Revolution,  45,  237,  281,  505, 
628;  Charles  II.,  47,  200,  244,  250; 
Anne,  66;   Henry  VIII.,  180,   321; 


James  II.,  200,  279;  William  III., 
200;  attack  on  Carthagena,  212; 
Pretender  Charles  Edward,  229,  247, 
470;  Pretender  James,  232,  332; 
Monmouth's  rebellion,  233,  411; 
Revolution  of  1715,  234;  Porteous 
Riot  in  Edinburgh,  235;  Richard 
I.,  238,  503;  Elizabeth,  240,  241, 
242,  383,  653;  James  I.,  243; 
Robert  III.  of  Scotland,  251;  Ed- 
ward I.  and  Robert  Bruce,  254; 
Wallace,  263;  war  of  181 2  vrith 
U.  S.,  272;  Bolingbroke,  286;  War  of 
Roses,  297,  471;  William  the  Con- 
queror, 299,  386;  William  IV.,  310; 
Victoria,  316,  317,  319,  320,  381, 
391,  417,  438;  war  with  Napoleon 
I-.  323,  324,  33h  474,  539;  Amer- 
ican Revolution,  ^^c:,,  672  ;  Gordon 
riot,  342;  Mary  of  Scotland,  398 
(see  also  Elizabeth);  Sepoy  rebel- 
lion, 465;  the  Black  Prince,  494; 
war  in  Soudan,  513;  George  II., 
538 

Canadian:  expulsion  of  French  from 

Acadie,  698 
Crusades:  248,  249,  253 

Dutch:  William  of  Nassau,  57;  Eras- 
mus, 358;  colonial  government  of 
Java,  689 

French:  Napoleon  I.,  16,  20,  23,  25, 
36,  60,  91,  131,  147,  177,  186,  271, 
282,  323,  324,  331,  474,  680;  con- 
spiracy of  Cinq-Mars,  19;  Vendean 
insurrection,  21,  67;  Catherine  de' 
Medici,  35;  French  Revolution,  36, 
5S>  58,  130,  182,  296,  349;  Louis 
XIII.,  43;  Louis  XIV.,  45,  80,  595; 
Massacre  of  St.  Bartholomew,  48; 
Henry  III.,  49,  50,  51,  480;  Henry 
II.,  51,  52;  Louis  XV.,  54,  55; 
Louis  XVI.,  55,  56,  58,  59,  60; 
Louis  XL,  63,  245;  Revolution  of 
1832,  64;  Prussian  war,  no,  306, 
667;  Gambetta,  118;  battle  of 
Dettingen,  212;  war  in  Algiers,  444; 
Joan  of  Arc,  461 ;  "  Lost  Dauphin," 
628;   Charlemagne,  630 

German:  Earl  Reynard,  166;  war 
with  Napoleon  I.,  177,  271;  Freder- 
ick the  Great,  181 ;  Luther,  418 

Icelandic:  Grettir,  431 


, 


I30 


SUBJECTS 


History — Italian, 
to  Insurance 


Italian:  plague  at  Milan,  151;  medi- 
aeval feuds,  152,  155;  Borgia,  153, 
572,  632;  Cenci,  154;  Sicilian  revo- 
lution, 156,  319;  present  day  poli- 
tics, 160-162;  Rienzi,  291;  Savon- 
arola, 390;  insurrection  of  Molinos, 
433;  tyranny  of  Venetian  doges,  530 

Polish :  war  with  Catherine  of  Russia, 

262 
Portuguese:   Vasco   da    Gama,    197; 

Lisbon  earthquake,  618 

Russian:  Catherine  II.,  262,  676; 
Peter  the  Great,  584;  Nihilism,  678, 
679,  684,  685 ;  Napoleonic  war,  680 

Spanish:  in  17th  century,  6;  the  Cid, 
142;  war  with  Napoleon  I.,  147, 
323;  Inquisition,  268;  Ferdinand 
and  Isabella,  294,  536 

Swiss:  war  with  Burgundy,  252 

United  States:  War  of  1812,  272,  543, 
548,  551.  552;  Revolution,  335,  518, 
521,  523.  540,  541,  559,  561,  672; 
French  war  of  1756,  525,  535;  King 
PhiUp's  War,  528,  650;  French 
war  after  Revolution,  542;  New 
York  anti-rent  agitation,  545;  slav- 
ery agitation,  570,  589;  Civil  War, 
575,590.594,613,657;  treatment  of 
California  Indians,  596;  Colonial 
New  York,  597;  Hayes  and  Tilden 
campaign,  606;  Reconstruction, 
609,  633;  Louisiana  Purchase,  621; 
Shay's  Rebellion,  643;  President 
Cleveland,  666;  settlement  of  Vir- 
ginia, 670 

West  Indian:  insurrection  in  San  Do- 
mingo, 282;  in  Martinique,  644 

Honesty,  advantage  of,  to  laborer,  74 

Horror,  magical,  211,  223,  224,  225, 
277.  283,  303,  468,  489,  509,  564; 
insane,  218,  236,  255,  268,  373,  553, 
641.  (See  also  Death,  Insanity, 
Magic.) 

Humanity,  see  Philanthropy 

Humor,  escapades  of  bombastic  lion- 
hunter,  113;  demented  master  and 
simple-minded  servant,  144;  child 
reared  on  philosophic  principles, 
209;  stupid  servant,  216;  untutored 
girl  in  society,  221;  eccentric  char- 
acter 270,  300,  301,  327,  341,  343; 
Stupid  Irish  servant,  278;  practical 


Jokes  of  ventriloqiiist,  325;  master 
gets  into  awkward  situations  from 
which  he  is  rescued  by  servant,  338; 
a  Scotch  "  humorist,"  498;  burlesque 
of  Oscar  Wilde,  511;  boyish  pranks, 
603;  backwoods  philosopher,  656, 
657;  French  pater-familias,  658. 
(See  also  Comedy.) 

Hypocrisy,  of  heirs,  343;  of  criminal 
clergyman,  497.    (See  also  Religion.) 

Hypnotism,  see  Psychic  Phenomena 

Imagination,  see  Magic;  Poetry 

ImjKDSture,  see  Deception 

Incest,  girl  loves  brother,  14;  Count 
Cenci,  154 

Indian,  American,  abuse  of,  596. 
(See  also  Indian,  American,  in 
Character.) 

Industry,  future  of,  304.  (See  also 
Business,      Labor,     Manufacture.) 

Infidelity,  see  Religion 

Ingratitude,  convict  steals  from  benev- 
olent bishop,  64;  secretary  betrays 
employer,  222 

Insanity,  demented  gentleman  plays 
knight-errant,  144,  215;  insane 
husband  drives  wife  mad,  218;  mad 
bride  kills  husband,  236;  adven- 
tures of  madman,  268;  girl  goes 
insane  over  conviction  of  lover,  276; 
assassin  goes  mad,  292,  293;  mur- 
deress of  son  goes  mad,  298;  mur- 
derous mad  gipsy  woman,  309-, 
half-witted  lad,  340,  342;  old  man 
demented  by  gambling,  341 ;  abuses 
of  private  insane  asylums,  359; 
maniac  wife,  373;  villain  incarcer- 
ates vnfe's  double  in  madhouse, 
403;  villain  uses  insane  woman  as 
accomplice,  407;  villain  becomes 
insane  for  love,  409;  prisoner  goes 
mad  upon  death  of  his  beloved,  434; 
insane  adventuress,  440;  insane 
stepmother  separates  wife  from  hus- 
band, 441;  past  a  blank,  462;  ma- 
niacal rage,  490;  mild  lunacy,  491; 
mad  Quaker  murders  Indians,  553; 
judge  persecutes  lunatic,  556; 
brother  of  sister  buried  alive  goes 
mad,  564;  capitalist  sends  inventor 
to  poorhouse  as  lunatic,  581;  im- 
becile Dauphin  recovers  reason,  628; 
woman  inheriting  insanity  goes 
mad  on  wedding  day,  641;  religious 
monomania,  661;  loss  of  memory, 
200 

Insurance,  ship,  361 


I 


Intellect  to 
Love 


SUBJECTS 


I3« 


Intellect,  inductive  reasoning,  7; 
student  succumbs  to  love,  165; 
girl's  head  develops  in  advance  of 
heart,  421.  (See  also  Crime,  De- 
tection of;  Education;  Invention; 
Philosophy.) 
Intemperance,  see  Temperance 
Invention,  paper-making,  30;  the 
guillotine,  59;  submarine  boat,  93; 
devices  of  castaway  sailor,  199; 
satire  of,  200;  printing,  266;  me- 
chanical, 362;  electrical,  482.  (See 
also  Inventor  in  Character.) 

Jealousy,  of  daughters  against  step- 
mother, 122;  of  artist's  wife  against 
model,  183;  of  rival  lovers,  206;  of 
courtesan,  207;  of  husband,  356, 
360;  dying  husband  forbids  widow 
to  remarry,  392;  of  lover  of  widow 
against  her  brother,  397;  of  step- 
mother, 441;  of  young  wife  of  older 
husband,  447;  of  princess  against 
lover's  Indian  captive,  536;  of 
woman  against  tenor's  sweetheart, 
649;  of  husband  against  musician, 
682;  of  pilot,  694.     (See  also  Love.) 

Journalism,  control  of  press  by  trusts, 
623;  Horace  Greeley,  657.  (See 
also  Journalist  in  Character.) 

Kidnapping,  of  tourists,  92;  of  violin- 
ist by  rival  in  love,  146;  of  girl,  192, 
217,  224,  649;  of  lad,  339;  High- 
land laird  kidnaps  actress,  457;  of 
heir,  470;  sea-captain,  endeavoring 
to  have  his  son  "crimped,"  is  kid- 
napped himself,  508;  prevented, 
547;  of  ladies  by  Indians,  561 

Knighthood,  see  Chivalry 

Labor,  sailor  salves  wreck,  65;  career 
of  a  mason,  74;  heiress  becomes 
work  girl,  78;  drunken  working- 
man,  105;  riots  and  strikes,  108, 
317,  604,  610,  666;  peasant's  greed 
for  land,  109;  advantages  of  indus- 
try and  child-bearing,  111;  labor 
reform,  112;  laundress  becomes 
duchess,  131;  lumbermen,  char- 
coal-burners, glassmakers,  175;  evils 
of  war  on  peasants,  177;  Irish 
tenants,  228;  English  tenants,  316; 
the  unemployed,  317;  mechanic 
oppressed  by  trade-unions,  347,  361 ; 
proud  mother  found  to  have  been 
cook  and  grocer's  wife,  354;  diffi- 
culties of  ruined  mill-owner,  374; 


Chartist  agitation,  381;  leader  in 
riot,  391;  bond  labor  in  American 
colonies,  470;  servant  girl  in  racing 
family,  478;  Anti-rent  agitation  in 
New  York,  545 ;  lampUghter  adopts 
waif,  588;  murder  results  from 
labor  troubles,  604;  labor  unions, 
623.  (See  also  Barber,  Clerk, 
Farmer,  Inventor,  Sailor,  Working- 
girl,  Workingman,  in  Character; 
Social  Reform.) 

Land,  property  in,  ethics  of,  544,  545. 
(See  also  Labor.) 

Law,  trial  for  witchcraft,  64,  238; 
satire  of,  200;  imprisonment  of 
witness,  207;  disputed  inheritance, 
326;  breach  of  promise,  338;  de- 
lays of  Chancery  court,  346;  impris- 
onment for  debt,  348;  sane  man 
sent  to  private  insane  asylum,  359; 
innocent  man  convicted  of  forgery, 
361;  injustice  of  law  leaves  heiress 
penniless,  404;  marriage  under 
Scotch  law,  407;  father  as  judge 
sentences  son  to  death,  473;  inno- 
cent woman  convicted  on  circum- 
stantial evidence,  550;  photography 
reveals  forgery,  581;  disputed  will, 
583;  lawyer  falsely  declares  his  Own 
beUef  in  innocence  of  client,  700 

Legend,  of  Wandering  Jew,  73,  266; 
of  Reynard  the  Fox,  166;  Grettir 
the  Outlaw,  431;  Childe  Christo- 
pher, 436;  Rip  Van  Winkle,  518; 
Headless  Horseman,  519 

Literature,  Madame  de  Stael,  58,  60; 
George  Sand  and  Daniel  Stern,  32; 
relations  of  Musset  and  George 
Sand,  75;  forger  victimizes  French 
Academician,  121;  Euphuism,  240; 
Petrarch,  266;  Byron  and  Shelley, 
315;  Dickens's  start  as  writer,  345; 
Landor  and  Leigh  Hunt,  346; 
Mrs.  Caroline  Norton,  417;  literary 
salon  of  Julie  de  Lespinasse,  476; 
Margaret  Fuller  and  Nathaniel 
Hawthorne  at  Brook  Farm,  557; 
N.  P,  Willis,  569.  (See  also  Auto- 
biography; Author  in  Character; 
Poetry;  Authors  on  page  iii.) 

Love,  heroic,  3;  medieval,  5,  630;  in- 
fatuation for  courtesan,  8;  of  wife 
for  tutor,  9;  of  boy  and  girl,  10,  633, 
639,  687,  688,  692,  603,  6()5,  703-, 
ethics  of  love,  11;  renunciation  in 
love,  12,  126,  349,  506,  554,  571,  594, 
602,  615,  627;  love  of  American 
Indian,  13,  596;  incestuous  love,  14, 


132 


SUBJECTS 


iMV 


154;  forgiving  love,  15,  645,  650, 
668,  691;  love  of  a  coquette,  18;  in 
a  prison,  20;  strife  between  love  and 
loyalty,  2 1 ;  sweetheart  nurses  cata- 
leptic lover,  24;  faithful  sweetheart 
of  fortune-seeker,  26;  too  critical  a 
wooer,  29;  young  man's  first  love, 
32;  girl's  pure  love,  34;  heiress's 
infatuation  for  poet,  38;  slighted  old 
maid,  39;  girl  disguised  as  page 
loves  duke,  52;  jealous  lover  kUls 
gipsy  girl,  61;  sailor  resigns  sweet- 
heart to  another,  65;  love  of  dis- 
figured mountebank  and  bUnd  girl, 
66;  Creole  wife  saved  from  villain 
by  friend,  who  loves  her,  68;  love  of 
outlaw  for  captive,  70;  of  neurotic 
youth,  75;  woman  loves  woman  in 
disguise,  76;  heiress  becomes  work- 
girl  to  save  lover  from  dissipation, 
78;  low-born  soldier  wins  high-bom 
lady,  80;  love  of  chief  for  priestess 
of  the  enemy,  82;  selfish  man 
returns  to  first  love,  to  find  her  mar- 
ried, 83 ;  poor  man  wins  heiress,  84, 
100,  344;  love  of  a  consumptive 
courtesan,  88;  grandfather  in  love 
with  grandchild,  91;  captive  in 
love  with  fellow  captive,  92;  poor 
doctor  in  love  with  school  teacher, 
95 ;  heiress  restores  ill-gotten  wealth 
to  its  owner,  whom  she  loves,  96; 
young  girl  beloved  by  her  brother, 
who  is  ignorant  of  their  kinship,  99 ; 
school-girl's  love  confessions,  loi; 
student  truly  loved  by  harlot,  102; 
lawless  love,  103;  priest's  love,  104, 
158,  160,  194,  512;  doctor  loves 
married  patient,  106;  subject  loves 
his  queen,  117;  courtesan  loves 
student,  119;  love  of  a  divorced 
man  for  a  divorcee,  122;  of  Hun- 
garian noble  for  gipsy,  125;  loves 
of  persons  of  complementary  quali- 
ties, 127,  169;  unsatisfied  love,  128; 
wife  has  two  lovers,  129;  jilted 
sister,  132;  lover  weds  girl  in  love 
with  a  villain,  133;  wife  has  a 
faithless  paramour,  134;  girl  loves 
her  mother's  paramour,  136;  love 
of  French  officer  for  Japanese  girl, 
138;  passionate  love,  139,612;  love 
triumphs  over  obstacles,  140;  love- 
sick girl,  141;  love  and  music,  146, 
422,  47s,  479,  649,  682;  officer  loves 
heroine,  147;  unretumed  love,  148; 
lovers  separated  by  monk,  149; 
father  kills  daughter's  lover,   149; 


emotions  of  unfaithful  wife,  150; 
English  girl  loves  Italian  revolu- 
tionist, 156;  tragedies  of  love  and 
poverty,  159;  statesman  ruined  by 
love,  162:  suicide  for  love,  164,  167, 
681;  intellectual  man  succumbs  to 
commonplace  woman,  165;  affinity, 
169,  314,  646;  controlled  by  des- 
tiny, 170;  love  of  man  for  water- 
sprite,  171;  idler's  love  for  supposed 
countess,  174;  hate  changed  to  love, 
176;  woman  disappointed  in  love, 
becomes  actress,  178;  soldier  loves 
artist's  model,  183;  man  resigns 
heiress  to  wed  poor  girl,  185;  girl 
loves  man  wronged  by  her  father, 
187;  man  foregoes  fortvme  to  wed 
girl  he  loves,  188;  girl  learns  to  love 
man  she  has  injured,  189;  love 
affairs  of  artists,  191;  adopted  son 
loves  daughter  of  the  house,  192; 
girl  loves  her  guardian,  196;  love  of 
negro  slaves,  198;  master  infatuated 
with  servant,  201;  passion  of  liber- 
tine, 202;  engaged  man  resists  a  new 
passion,  203;  man  in  love  with  a 
girl  wrongly  reputed  his  sister,  204; 
rivalry  in  love  of  a  foimdling  and  an 
heir,  206;  man  in  love  rescues  the 
girl  from  a  villain,  217;  poor  man  in 
love  dies  of  sorrow  because  of  ina- 
bility to  marry,  219;  romance  of  an 
untutored  but  clever  girl,  221;  girl 
in  love  with  her  rescuer,  224,  225; 
lovers  vmited,  226;  comphcations  of 
English  officer  with  two  Scotswomen, 
229;  historical  love  romances,  231, 
233.  234,  237,  653,  655,  672,  698; 
girl  saved  from  loveless  marriage  to 
wed  true  lover,  232;  girl  forced  to 
give  up  her  lover  and  marry  another, 
becomes  insane  and  murders  hus- 
band, 236;  Jewess  loves  knight,  238; 
love  of  a  pirate,  239 ;  243 ;  king  imites 
lovers,  244;  soldier  wins  princess, 
246;  unlawful  love  resisted,  248; 
blacksmith  wins  his  sweetheart  from 
seductions  of  prince,  251;  EngUsh- 
man  loves  Swiss  noblewoman,  252; 
single  combat  over  lady  love,  254; 
love  problems  among  EngUsh  coun- 
try gentry,  256-261;  love  of  Polish 
refugee,  262;  love  story  of  Wallace, 
263;  love  troubles  of  headstrong 
girl,  269;  avenger  kills  grandfather 
of  his  beloved,  271;  love  of  CathoHc 
and  Protestant,  276,  279;  love 
adventures  of  a  Cavalier,   281;    a 


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SUBJECTS 


133 


man  loves  the  sister  of  a  suspected 
assassin,  284;  rivalry  in  love  of 
brothers,  285,  295;  286;  289;  a 
blind  girl's  love,  290;  assassin's 
daughter  loves  a  captive,  and  saves 
him,  292;  man  mistakenly  suspects 
sweetheart  is  his  daughter,  293; 
tragic  love  of  Moorish  general  for 
Jewess,  294;  297;  299;  love  of  poet 
and  outcast,  301;  woman  thwarts 
her  lover's  villainies,  to  keep  him  in 
her  power,  302;  girl,  resigned  by 
her  lover  to  her  benefactor,  dies  of 
grief,  305;  king  kills  his  beloved 
by  mistake,  307;  gentleman  se- 
cretly married  to  peasant  girl,  loves 
a  lady,  whence  tragedy  results,  308; 
adventurer  beats  a  bully  and  wins 
his  woman,  309;  love  romances  of 
budding  statesman,  310,  311,  316, 
317;  love  saves  girl  from  nunnery, 
312;  unfortunate  love,  313;  love 
romances  of  Byron  and  Shelley,  315; 
Oriental  love,  318;  love  of  soldier 
and  maid-of-honor,  324;  a  girl's 
patient  love,  330;  love  of  man  and 
his  stepmother,  332;  widower's  love 
for  governess,  336;  lovers  tested, 
343;  child-wife  and  soul-mate,  345; 
love  compensates  for  misfortune, 
348;  man  loves  woman  who  in  their 
youth  had  tortured  him,  350;  a  les- 
son in  love,  351;  love  and  crime, 
352,  369,  558,  625,  636,  673;  actress 
resigns  her  lover  to  his  wife,  353; 
artist  loves  fisher-girl,  354;  villain 
separates  lovers,  355;  tragedies  of 
love  due  to  misunderstanding,  356; 
love  at  sea,  357,  674;  lovers,  separ- 
ated, enter  the  Church,  358;  good 
son  circumvents  his  wicked  father 
who  would  prevent  his  marriage, 
359;  jealous  love,  360,  447,  694;  in- 
nocent convict  wins  the  betrothed 
of  the  real  criminal,  361 ;  mechanic 
overcomes  villainous  rival  in  love, 
362 ;  a  wife  saves  a  maiden  from  her 
villainous  husband,  and  falls  in  love 
with  the  maiden's  brother,  365;  rival 
suitors,  370,  397;  371;  governess 
loves  a  man  with  maniac  vrife,  373; 
return  to  first  love,  374;  love  in 
school,  375,  376;  mother's  guidance 
in  love^  37^;  gijl  loves  man  who 
tvrongly  suspects  her  of  robbery, 
384;  mechanic  loves  seduced  girl, 
387;  children  of  enemies  love  each 
Other,  388;  fcmndling  refuses  to  give 


up  her  lover,  a  laborer,  to  go  to  rich 
father,  389;  woman  resigns  wealth 
to  marry  f)oor  reformer,  391 ;  a  wid- 
ow of  a  jealous  man  resigns  his 
wealth  to  marry  her  choice,  392; 
love  of  two  "Zionists,"  393;  repen- 
tant love,  394;  transference  of 
lover's  rights,  395;  supplanting  in 
love,  396;  bachelor  ensnared,  400; 
lover  saves  wife  of  villain  from  mad- 
house, 403;  adventuress  saved  by 
good  man's  love,  404;  lover  saves 
girl  from  evil  designs  of  hypnotist, 
408;  a  poor  and  proud  Iqvct,  409; 
guardian  loves  ward,  410;  yeoman 
loves  outlaw's  daughter,  411;  love 
in  vacation,  414;  gentleman  forbids 
his  son  to  marry  farmer's  daughter, 
415,  selfishness  alienates  love,  416; 
heiress  poses  as  poor  and  wins  lover, 
421;  love  troubles  of  a  scamp's 
daughter,  426;  love  affairs  of  Eng- 
lish girl  in  America,  427;  love  in  the 
Latin  Quarter,  428,  435;  girl  ships 
as  sailor  to  be  with  her  lover,  430; 
poor  boy  loves  his  employer's  daugh- 
ter, 432;  a  prisoner  visits  his  be- 
loved in  dreams,  434;  love  and 
social  reform,  438;  439;  artist  and 
model,  442;  woman  of  the  regiment 
dies  to  save  a  soldier,  444;  Ouida's 
own  love  story,  445 ;  coquette  drives 
away  lover,  446;  English  rustic  love 
tragedies,  448-451;  Swiss  love 
affairs,  453;  merchant  contrives  the 
marriage  of  a  poor  girl,  loved  by  his 
son,  to  a  villain,  454;  German  officer 
and  English  girl,  455;  love  in  the 
Hebrides,  456;  Highlander  and 
London  actress,  457;  love  in  Aus- 
tralia, 460;  love  and  journalism, 
463,  513,  587,  606,  667,  669;  man 
loves  daughter  of  a  rascal,  472;  for- 
mer lover  of  girl  kills  her  seducer, 
473;  French  peasant  and  Scots- 
woman, 474;  love  in  a  salon,  476; 
love  and  religion,  477,  605,  700,  703; 
love  and  athletics,  483;  love  and 
literature,  485,  501,  510,  587,  660; 
love  and  magic,  486-489,  559;  love 
and  suicide,  490,  495,  686;  calf-love, 
496;  preacher  and  gipsy,  499;  tricked 
at  the  tryst,  500;  love  and  chivalry, 
502;  loves  of  Richard  L,  503;  love 
and  friendship,  504;  love  and  war, 
505;  love  and  gambling,  507;  love 
m  a  seaport,  508;  love  in  disguise, 
516,  520;    Revolutionary  and  pio- 


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SUBJECTS 


Loyalty  to 
Marriage 


neer  love  stories,  521-525,  535,  537, 
541,544,551;  Indian  and  Christian 
rivals  in  love,  536;  preacher  and 
adulteress,  555;  love  among  the 
Transcendentalists,  557;  love  and 
travel,  562;  love  and  medical 
science,  566;  guided  love,  567; 
man  in  love,  yet  with  antipathy  to 
woman,  568;  editor  and  authoress, 
569;  love  breaks  vow  of  virginity, 
572;  flower-girl  weds  heir,  544; 
love  and  patriotism,  575;  love  and 
religion,  577.  584,  593)  orphan  giri 
and  adopted  brother,  580;  love  and 
melodrama,  584,  588;  school-girl 
love,  585,  599;  negro  and  white, 
589,  594;  French  nobleman  and 
New  England  Quakeress,  595; 
Englishman  and  colonial  New 
York  girl,  597;  early  love  es- 
tranges wife  from  husband,  598; 
love  on  an  island,  600;  physician 
and  artist,  601;  sweetheart  loyal  to 
man  accused  of  murder,  604;  choice 
between  sisters,  607,  665;  love  and 
labor,  610;  love  and  medicine,  613; 
lovers  brought  together  by  enfant 
terrible,  616;  gentleman  and  servant 
girl,  618;  imconventional  American 
girl  in  Europe  and  her  censor,  619; 
ambitious  wife  and  reproachful 
lover,  620;  love  and  friendship,  622; 
cataleptic  lover  unwittingly  kills 
sweetheart,  624;  love  and  society, 
626,  662;  "Lost  Dauphin"  and 
American  girl,  628 ;  love  and  atavism, 
629;  engineer  and  "pit  girl,"  634; 
love  and  insanity,  641;  love  and  re- 
incarnation, 648;  schoolma'am  and 
pupil,  651;  woman  forsakes  para- 
mour to  adopt  orphan,  654;  a  dead 
love  blocks  a  living  one,  663;  love 
and  business,  671 ;  sacredness  of  be- 
trothal, 701 
Loyalty,  of  old  soldier  for  Napoleon  I., 
25;  of  clerk,  31;  of  subject,  117, 
179,  250;  of  servant,  199,  216,  236, 
308,  576;  of  family  to  Pretender, 
247;  queen  loyal  to  deposed  king, 
467;  of  admirals,  538.  (See  also 
Patriotism.) 

Magic,  talisman  measures  life  of  man, 
22;  imites  man  and  maiden,  170; 
water-sprite  marries  man,  171; 
knight  contends  with  Devil,  172; 
man  sells  shadow  to  Devil,  173;  fair- 
ies of  Black  Forest,  175;  marvellous 


voyages,  200;  horrors,  211,  224,  225; 
Oriental,  223;  tutelary  spirit,  240; 
monk  sells  soul  to  devil,  255;  devil 
prophesies  man  will  go  mad,  268; 
man  creates  human  monster,  277; 
man  meets  ghost  of  his  beloved 
at  assignation,  283;  Rosicrucian 
barters  supernatural  power  for  love, 
296;  wizard  inventor,  297;  necro- 
mancer, 297,  299;  elixir  of  youth, 
303,  559;  woman's  ghost  haunts 
house  of  lover,  380;  fairy-tale  of 
child  among  water  animals,  385; 
outlaw  fights  ghost,  431;  drug 
changes  man  to  monster,  467;  amu- 
let causes  boy  and  father  to  change 
places,  484;  statue  comes  to  Ufe, 
486;  image  of  god  makes  mischief, 
487;  African  princess  discovers 
secret  of  immortal  youth,  489;  por- 
trait reveals  vices  of  subject,  490; 
of  electricity,  509;  man  sleeps  for 
twenty  years,  518;  lover  frightens 
rival  by  assuming  guise  of  legendary 
spirit,  519;  judge  falls  dead  accord- 
ing to  ancient  curse,  556;  bond  be- 
tween house  and  inmates,  564; 
fulfilment  of  prophecy,  576;  magic 
white  whale,  579;  girl  meets  fate  of 
prototype,  629.  (See  also  Mysti- 
cism, Psychic  Phenomena.) 

Manufacture,  printing  and  paper 
making,  30;  perfumery,  31;  flour, 
132;  ironmaster,  133;  nails,  265; 
leather,  412;  paint,  607.  (See 
also  Business-,  Invention.) 

Marriage,  girl  goes  disguised  as  cava- 
lier among  men  and,  disgusted  with 
them,  forswears  matrimony,  76; 
divorce,  122,  136,  647;  woman 
monk  marries  head  of  monastery, 
158;  couples  re-pair  according  to 
affinity,  169;  Henry  VIII.,  180; 
alienation  of  husband  and  vrife,  195, 
441;  treatise  on,  220;  ethicsof,  258; 
secret  tragedy  of,  308;  breach  of 
promise,  338;  bigamy,  356,  360, 
390,  405,  440;  wife  deceives  hus- 
band as  to  paternity  of  child,  363; 
runaway  wife  returns  in  disguise  to 
be  governess  of  child,  366;  husband 
alienates  wife  by  his  self-will,  372; 
husband  estranged  from  wife  by  his 
evil  past,  379;  "Scotch  marriage," 
407;  dnmkard  sells  wife  and  child- 
ren, 450;  husband  and  wife  mutu- 
ally confess  lapses  from  chastity, 
451;    matrimonial  scheming,  453; 


Medletne  to 

Painting 


SUBJECTS 


135 


runaway  Scotch  wife  of  cruel  Lon- 
doner, 456;  loyal  queen  of  deposed 
king,  467;  ethics  of,  481;  incom- 
patibility in,  482;  union  of  oppxj- 
sites  in  learned  woman  and  prize- 
fighter, 483;  a  sacrament,  572; 
study  of  temperaments  in,  646;  for 
ambition,  647;  ethics  of,  681,  682. 
(See  also  Husband  and  Wife  in 
Character.) 

Medicine,  catalepsy,  24,  564;  coimtry 
doctor,  25,  81,  637;  skeptical  physi- 
cian, 34;  hospital  abuses  in  Paris, 
72;  Wandering  Jew  spreads  cholera, 
73;  love  of  a  neurotic  youth,  75; 
unfaithful  wife  of  country  doctor, 
81;  death  of  consumptive,  88;  phy- 
siologist suspends  animation  by 
desiccation,  91;  doctor  hypnotizes 
wife  to  learn  her  secrets,  95 ;  doctor 
seduces  patient,  106;  physiological 
basisof  character,  124;  plague,  149, 
151;  Italian  doctor  as  revolutionist, 
156;  transfusion  of  blood,  195,  360, 
602;  satire  of,  200,  209;  ship's  sur- 
geon, 212;  doctor  frustrates  hypno- 
tist, 303;  doctor  ruined  by  extrava- 
gant wife,  364;  woman  doctor,  365, 
637;  "beauty  doctor,"  405;  villain 
stricken  with  paralysis,  407;  doctor 
with  second  evil  personality,  468; 
resuscitation  of  man  buried  alive, 
469 ;  temperamental  melancholy, 
491;  prenatal  influence  on  girl  of 
snakes,  566;  antipathy  of  youth 
against  young  womanhood,  568; 
Jesus  cures  leprosy,  591;  mulatto 
doctor  gives  up  position  among 
whites  to  work  for  blacks,  594;  sur- 
geon and  nurse  in  Civil  War,  613. 
(See  also  Blindness,  Chemistry, 
Doctor  and  Nurse  in  Character, 
Psychic  Phenomena.) 

Melodrama,  see  Death,  Love 

Mining,  tragedies  of,  108;  discovery 
of  gold  in  Australia,  355;  discovery  of 
diamonds  in  South  Africa,  364,  488; 
coal,  634;  gold  in  Colorado,  659. 
(See  also  Miner  in  Character.) 

Misery,  see  Cruelty,  Deformity,  Death, 
Prison,  Punishment 

Misfortune,  see  Ruin 

Mob,  see  Riot 

Modesty,  heroic  blacksmith  refuses 
wealth  and  title,  251 

Motherhood,  solace  of,  134;  agony  of, 
135.  (See  also  Mother  in  Char- 
acter.) 


Murder,  see  Death 

Music,  Liszt,  32 ;  the  Marseillaise,  130; 
fanatic  destroys  musical  scores,  188; 
draws  lovers  together,  365, 6S2;  Felix 
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy,  422;  con- 
ductor hypnotizes  tone-deaf  girl  into 
prima  donna,  435;  recalls  scene  of 
murder  to  girl  whose  mind  has  been 
a  blank,  462;  German  conservatory, 
475;  musical  temperament,  479; 
singer  loses  voice,  613;  career  of  tenor 
649;  Norwegian  folk-songs,  692. 
(See  also  Musician  in  Character.) 

Mutiny,  of  sailors,  199,  459 

Mystery,  mysteries  of  Paris,  72;  of 
girl's  birth,  221,  325;  mistaken  iden- 
tity disclosed,  301;  unknown  bene- 
factor, 350;  of  widow's  antecedents, 
397;  of  governess's  life,  640;  of 
foundling's  parentage,  687.  (See 
also  Murder  in  Death;  Crime, 
Detection  of.) 

Mysticism,  Swedenborgianism,  24, 
28,  54;  Jewish,  313;  Oriental,  318; 
Catholic,  433;  electricity  as  divine 
power,  509;  strange  savages  who 
fear  color  white,  563.  (Sec  also 
Magic;  Psychic  Phenomena.) 

Mythology,  classic,  1,  2;  Norse,  4; 
faun,  558.  (See  also  names  of  gods 
in  index  on  page  109,  Proper 
Names:  i.  Persons.) 

Nature,  love  of,  99,  504 

Natural  History,  of  Pacific  island,  675. 
(See  also  Animals.) 

Navy,  see  Sea,  The 

Negro,  Arabian  mulatto  chief,  3; 
tragedy  of  negro  prince  and  prin- 
cess, 198;  Toussaint,  282;  English- 
man aids  slave  girl  to  escape,  384; 
evils  of  slavery,  570,  571;  fugitive 
slave,  589,  590;  negro  philanthro- 
pist, 594;  Ku-Klux  outrages,  609; 
negro  heroine  of  Martinique,  644. 

Nihilism,  see  Politics 

Numismatics,  189 

Opium-eating,  352,  406 

Paganism,  see  Religion 

Painting,  artist  life  in  Paris,  86,  435; 
Leonardo  and  Reni,  174;  artist  life 
in  Munich,  191;  Michael  Angelo, 
266;  actress  poses  as  picture  to  con- 
found art  critics,  353;  magical  por- 
trait, 490;  revengeful  model  des- 
troys    artist's     masterpiece,     513; 


130 


SUBJECTS 


ParaUe  to 
Pslson 


artist  colony  in  Rome,  558.  (See  also 
Artist  in  Character.) 

Parable,  see  Symbolism 

Pardon,  Queen  Josephine  pardons 
prisoner,  20;  of  convict  who  saved 
warden's  life,  190;  Queen  Caroline 
pardons  child  murderess,  225; 
Cromwell  pardons  impersonator  of 
Charles  II.,  250;  seducer  secures 
reprieve  for  child  murderess,  387; 
Catherine  II.  pardons  spy,  676. 
(See  also  Forgiveness.) 

Parental  Relations,  see  Father  and 
Mother  in  Character 

Pathos,  see  Cruelty,  Death,  Grief, 
Negro,  Poverty 

Patience,   allegory  of,    175;    in   love, 

33°>  345 
Patriotism,  bond  of  love,  125;  of 
Polish  exile,  262 ;  of  spy  in  American 
Revolution,  521;  in  Civil  War,  575, 
613,  657;  of  American  in  Englancl 
during  Revolution,  672.  (See  also 
Heroism,  History,  Loyalty.) 

Penology,  prisoner  converted  by 
flower,  20;  abuses  of  French  penal 
system,  72;  of  English,  338,  348, 
355;  abuses  of  private  insane  asy- 
lums, 359.  (See  also  Prison,  Social 
Reform.) 

Persecution,  see  Cruelty,  Religion 

Philanthropy,  of  ex-convict,  64;  man 
repents  of  bargain  with  devil,  and 
devotes  himself  to  good  deeds,  173; 
allegory  of,  175;  banker  founds 
hospital,  243 ;  abuser  of  benefaction, 
367;  helping  people  to  help  them- 
selves, 395;  of  Dutch  official  in 
Java,  689;  of  blind  deaf-mute,  690; 
(See  Social  Reform,  Wealth.) 

Philosophy  of  life,  7,  208,  210,  443;  of 
Swedenborg,  24;  Epicureanism, 
191,264;  satire  of,  200;  democratic, 
274,  297;  materialistic,  347;  Neo- 
Platonism,  382;  TrancendentaUsts 
form  farm  colony,  557;  reincarna- 
tion, 558;  sentience  of  inorganic 
world,  564;  Hindu,  648;  philo- 
sophic history  of  Russia,  680.  (See 
also  Mysticism,  Religion.) 

Photography,  reveals  forgery,  581 

Physiognomy,  satire  of,  209 

Physiology,  see  Medicine 

i^igmies,  see  Magic 

Pionee-  Life,  see  Pioneer  in  Char- 
acter 


Piracy,  hotel  porters  taken  for  pirates, 
113.  (See  also  Pirate  in  Char- 
acter.) 

Plagiarism,  485 

Poetry,  the  Iliad,  i;  the  ^neid,  2; 
An  tar,  3;  Eddas,  4;  Aucassin  and 
Nicolette,  5;  the  Cid,  142;  the 
Lusiad,  197;  Icelandic  saga,  431; 
Norse  idyl,  692. 

Politics,  intrigue  for  French  deputy's 
seat,  41;  millionaire  in,  116;  politi- 
calidol,  118;  rascality  in,  136;  me- 
diaeval Italian,  155;  priest  de- 
nounces politicians,  160;  school- 
master's fight  with  politicians,  161; 
Italian  poUtician  ruined  by  intrigue, 
162;  ban  against  misalliance  of 
clergy,  184;  satire  of,  200,  533; 
adventurer  in,  213;  rascals  in,  219; 
youth  dabbles  in,  289;  democratic 
principles,  274,  297;  studies  in,  301; 
French  in  Prussian  War,  306; 
British  Victorian,  310-320;  bribery 
in,  370;  Chartist  agitation,  381; 
political  secret  society  kills  traitor, 
403;  woman  meddles  in,  417,  476, 
647;  crook,  586;  Presidential  cam- 
paign, 606;  Reconstruction  of 
South,  609,  633;  minister  goes  into, 
652;  President  Cleveland,  666; 
journalist  in,  669;  Russian,  satire 
of,  677;  Russian  Nihilism,  678,  679, 
685;  abuses  of  Dutch  Government 
in  Java,  689.     (See  also  History.) 

Poverty,  abuses  of  poor  of  Paris,  72; 
romance  of  poor  young  man,  84, 
100;  poor  students  of  Paris,  86,  102; 
poor  Italian  family,  157,  159; 
makeshifts  of  servant  of  poor  gen- 
tleman, 236;  old  maid,  327;  son 
repudiates  bad  father  and  suffers 
poverty,  337;  prevents  marriage  of 
workingman,  347;  People's  Palace 
for  the  poor,  438;  London  ghetto, 
510;  waif  adopted  by  lamplighter, 
588;  makeshifts  of  poor  aristocratic 
family,  617 

Prejudice,  of  Scotch  against  Ameri- 
cans, 580 

Pride,  of  birth,  257,  354;  of  wealth,  374 

Prison,  imprisonment  for  debt,  34,  348; 
escape  from,  44;  conspiracy  to 
rescue  Marie  Antoinette  from,  53; 
bandit  holds  tourist  for  ransom,  92; 
Italian  revolutionist,  156;  'escape  of 
the  Dauphin,  182,  628;  witness  of 
assault,  207;  sharper,  2id^  child- 
murderess,  235;    escape  01"  soldier 


I 


Prophecy  to 
BellgloR 


SUBJECTS 


137 


and  Highland  chief,  337;  Jewess 
succors  English  knight  in,  238; 
Mary,  Queen  of  Scots,  241;  man 
imprisoned  for  religion,  276;  spend- 
thrift heir  dies  in,  326;  man  goes  to 
prison  rather  than  pay  damages  in 
breach  of  promise  suit,  338;  inno- 
cent man  imprisoned  for  theft,  355; 
sane  men  escape  from  private  in- 
sane asylum,  359;  Chartist  agita- 
tor in,  381 ;  prisoner  lives  in  dreams, 
434;  Christian  martyr,  443 ;  French 
prisoners  of  war,  in  Scotland,  474; 
Danish  house  of  correction,  687. 
(See  also  Penology.) 

Prophecy,  see  Divination 

Prostitution,  8,  88,  89,  102,  103,  107, 
119,  684.  (See  also  Courtesan  in 
Character.) 

Psychic  Phenomena,  hypnotism,  34, 
55.  56,  95,  303,  406,  408,  435;  tel- 
epathy, 46;  presentiment,  178;  vril, 
304;  inherited  affinity  of  boy  and 
girl,  380;  spiritualism,  434,  439; 
music  recalls  scene  of  murder  to 
girl  whose  mind  had  been  a  blank, 
462;  double  personality,  468;  lapses 
of  memory,  624;  girl  meets  fate  of 
ancestor,  6:59.  (See  also  Magic, 
Mysticism.) 

Psycholog}',  "child  is  father  to  the 
man,"  586;  woman's  moods,  598. 
(See  also  Character,  Intellect,  Love, 
Psychic  Phenomena,  Will.) 

Pugilism,  309 

Punishment,  for  self-indulgence,  22, 
83,  85;  for  infidelity,  23;  soldier 
executes  wicked  wife,  43;  of  crime, 
211;  of  seducer,  246;  of  headstrong 
girl,  269 ;  of  abusers  of  husband  and 
wife,  271;  of  assassin,  293;  murder- 
ess of  son  goes  mad,  298;  of  sharp- 
ing lawyer  and  false  heir,  326;  of 
heartless  father,  340;  of  contemp- 
tuous girl  toward  lover,  351;  of 
forger,  361;  of  bribing  politician, 
370;  villain  entombed  alive  in  tree, 
425;  of  wicked  uncle,  470;  for  adul- 
tery, 555;  wicked  judge  falls  dead, 
556;  conscience-stricken  murderess, 
558.  (See  also  Criminal,  Rascal 
and  Villain  in  Character,  Pen- 
ology, Prison.) 

Race-suicide,  see  Child-bearing 
Railroads,  see  Business 
Rascality,  see  Rascal  and  Villain  in 
Tharacter;  Crime 


Real-estate,  Jew  finances  watering- 
place,  134;  minister  goes  into,  65a; 
land  speculation,  656 

Religion,  converts  among  American 
Indians,  13,  14,  536;  prisoner  con- 
verted  by  flower,  20;  Swcdenborg- 
ianism,  24;  converted  physician,  34; 
persecution  of  Huguenots,  35,  51; 
the  Wandering  Jew,  73,  266;  idola- 
try, 82;  fanaticism,  120,  188,  309; 
parable  of  religious  tolerance,  149; 
Woman  absolved  of  vow  of  virginity, 
151;  priest  denounces  abuses  of 
Church,  160;  strife  of  Christianity 
with  paganism,  172,  264,  382,  402, 
443,  702;  man  sells  shadow  to 
devil,  173;  English  Reformation, 
180;  ban  against  misalliance  of 
clergy,  184;  conversion  of  pagan, 
194;  Catholic  girl  resigns  betrothed 
to  Protestant,  203;  reflection  on, 
210;  vicar,  217;  persecution  ol 
Scotch  Covenanters,  233;  Reforma- 
tion in  Scotland,  240,  241;  plot  to 
restore  Catholicism  in  England,  244; 
monk  sells  soul  to  devil,  255; 
woman  missionary  teaches  young 
castaway,  275;  strife  bct\yecn 
Catholics  and  Protestants,  276,  279, 
424;  converted  Jewess,  294;  Jewish 
"Prince  of  the  Captivity,"  313; 
Judaism  and  Christianity  harmo- 
nized, 318;  Anglican  movement 
toward  Rome,  319;  satire  of  foreign 
missions,  346;  preferment  in  Angli- 
can church,  367,  368;  Savonarola, 
390,  572;  sacrilege,  304;  devout 
Scotch  steward,  408;  Martin  Lu- 
ther, 418;  Dissenters,  419;  Catholic 
becomes  Quietist,  433;  conversion  of 
dying  outcast,  477;  religious  music, 
479;  converted  atheist,  492;  Mor- 
monism,  493;  preacher  convicted  of 
sin  falls  dead  in  pulpit,  497;  min- 
ister's love  for  gipsy  girl  creates 
scandal  in  church,  499;  emanci- 
pated Trappist  monk  marries,  512; 
clergyman  confesses  adultery,  555; 
New  England  Puritanism,  571,  573; 
diary  of  reUgious  woman,  577;  Cal- 
vinist  softened  by  little  girl,  582; 
Jesus  Christ,  591;  obligations  of, 
593;  circuit  rider,  605;  ban  of 
church  on  dancing,  638;  the  busi- 
ness of  a  revivalist,  652;  religious 
monomania,  661;  divine  love,  683, 
684;  pastor  opposes  theatre,  693; 
preacher    converts    frontier    settle- 


138 


SUBJECTS 


Remorse  to 
Bomance 


ment,  699;  conversion  of  atheist, 
700;  of  children  on  Boer  farm,  703. 
(See  also  Clergyman  and  Priest  in 
Character;  Ethics;  Philosophy.) 
Remorse,  see  Repentance 
Renunciation,  see  Self-Sacrifice 
Repentance,  of  murderer,  15,  16,  222, 
292,308;  of  agnostic,  20;  of  woman 
lover,  21;  of  convict,  64;  of  wicked 
priest,  106;  of  bad  mother,  106; 
of  nmaway  wife,  123,  482;  of  mur- 
derous father,  163;  of  man  who 
bargained  with  devil,  173;  of  King's 
mistress,  179;  of  libertine,  202;  of 
denouncer  of  his  employer  as  mur- 
derer, 222;  of  robber,  287;  of 
rascal,  300;  of  adventuress,  344;  of 
contemptuous  girl  to  her  lover,  350, 
374;  of  man-hating  old  woman,  350; 
of  money-worshiping  girl,  351;  of 
erring  husband,  353;  of  woman 
forger,  369;  of  sacrilegious  young 
Irishman,  394;  of  prig  whose  intol- 
erance had  caused  cousin's  death, 
401 ;  stepmotherrepents  of  separating 
husband  and  wife,  441;  of  jealous 
wife,  447;  of  deserting  husband, 
451;  of  cruel  husband,  457;  of 
murderer  and  outcast,  477;  of  way- 
ward wife,  481;  of  plagiarist,  485; 
of  married  ex-monk,  512;  clergy- 
man confesses  adultery,  555 ;  would- 
be  murderess  slays  herself,  559;  of 
gambler,  605;  of  woman  who  re- 
ceived inheritance  by  deception, 
661;  of  fortune-himting  girl,  662; 
of  moral  murderer,  673 ;  of  wayward 
son,  686;  of  jealous  husband,  694. 
(See  also  Grief.) 
Rescue  and  Escape,  abortive  attempt 
to  save  Charles  I.,  45,  and  Marie 
Antoinette,  53;  of  children  from 
burning  castle,  67;  of  bandits' 
prisoners,  92;  of  abducted  girl,  217, 
224,  225;  dwarf  recluse  rescues  girl 
from  loveless  marriage,  232;  sister 
saves  child-murderess,  235;  of  lad 
from  thieves,  339 ;  of  simple-minded 
waif  from  cruel  school-master, 
340;  of  girl  from  scoundrels,  340; 
of  runaway  grandfather  and 
grandchild,  341;  youth  rescues 
old  woman  from  burning  house, 
350;  vain  attempt  to  rescue 
maniac  wife  from  burning  house, 
373;  adventuress  redeemed  by  love, 
404;  young  man  rescues  girl  from 
hypnotist,   408;    lover  rescues  girl 


from  insane  villain,  409;  brother 
rescues  sister  charged  with  murder, 
419;  of  castaways,  430,  459;  of 
wrecked  crew,  442;  of  English  men 
and  women,  in  Sepoy  Rebellion, 
465;  jail  deHvery,  473;  escape  of 
French  prisoner  of  war  in  Scotland, 
473;  escape  of  Englishman  im- 
prisoned in  mine,  488;  of  student 
soldier,  505 ;  Englishman  runs  away 
with  Russian  Princess,  507;  lunatic 
saves  hfe  of  British  soldier,  524; 
in  Indian  wars,  525,  527,  528,  535, 
537.  540,  548,  560,  561;  in  naval 
battles,  526,  538;  escape  of  sleigh 
riders  on  breaking  ice,  541;  Indian 
saves  friends,  540,  548;  Gov. 
Craven  saves  South  Carolina,  560; 
girl  saves  man  from  burning  build- 
ing, 568;  of  girl  from  Borgias,  572; 
woodsman  rescues  persecuted  in- 
ventor from  poorhouse,  581;  jour- 
nalist saves  country  girl,  587;  rail- 
road promoter  saved  from  ruin 
by  aimt,  611;  in  Lisbon  earth- 
quake, 618;  escape  of  sailor 
and  girl  from  tyrannical  ship  cap- 
tain, 674;  of  attempted  self -slayer, 
700 

Restitution,  heiress  restores  property 
to  true  heir,  96,  187;  son  restores 
property  to  true  heiress,  188;  heirs 
righted,  226,  369;  stolen  money 
restored  by  thief's  daughter,  384; 
"board  money"  restored  to  land- 
lord, 600 

Revenge,  repented  of  too  late,  21;  of 
shghted  poor  relation,  39;  of  inno- 
cent prisoner  who  escapes,  44;  of 
son  of  executed  woman,  45;  man 
kills  murderer  of  twin  brother,  46; 
injured  man  turns  pirate,  93;  medi- 
£eval  feuds,  152;  son  on  father,  155; 
son  on  parent's  abusers,  271;  man 
forgives  enemy  at  his  mercy,  450, 
458;  model  destroys  artist's  master- 
piece, 513;  Indian  revenges  insult, 
540,  541;  wife  of  dead  lover  plans 
to  kill  slayer,  559;  of  servant  of  in- 
jured  man,  576;  among  miners, 
612;  man  leads  astray  son  of  his 
enemy,  673 

Riot,  the  Porteous,  235;  mob  tears 
pagan  teacher  (woman)  to  pieces, 
382;  Ku-Klux,  609,  633;  "white 
caps,"  669.     (See  also  Labor.) 

Romance,  see  Adventure,  Love, 
Heroism 


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SUBJECTS 


'30 


Royally,  kings  in  exile,  117;  corrup- 
tion of  court,  179;  court  oT  Henry 
VIII.-,  180;  court  of  Frederick  the 
Great,  181;  court  of  Elizabeth,  242, 
653;  court  of  James  I.,  243;  senti- 
mental king  deposed,  467;  court  of 
Louis  XIV.,  595.  (See  also  King 
and  Queen  in  Character;  Hist- 
ory.) 

Ruin,  moral,  8,  14,  22,  85, 95,.  119, 120, 
25s;  financial,  30,  31,  114,  333,  344, 
361,  388,  444,  607,  611;  social,  85, 
119;  political,  160,  161,  162 

Satire,  of  English  women  and  modem 
business  methods,  92;  of  abuses  of 
the  time,  143;  of  chivalry,  144,  213; 
of  human  race,  200,  533;  of  "Pam- 
ela," 204;  of  exaltation  of  criminals, 
205,  328;  rearing  a  child  on  philo- 
sophic principles,  209;  of  naval  mis- 
management, 212;  satirical  youth, 
214;  of  foreign  missions,  346;  of 
aestheticism,  511;  of  Russian  poli- 
tics and  society,  677,  678,  679,  684, 
685 ;  of  organized  charity,  696 

Science,  satire  of;  200;  future  of,  304. 
(See  also  Aeronautics,  Chemistry, 
Electricity,  Engineering,  Invention, 
Medicine,  Psychic  Phenomena.) 

Sculpture,  statue  of  faim,  558 

Sea,  The,  girl  lost  in  wreck,  10;  sailor 
salves  wreck,  65 ;  submarine  pirate, 
93;  stoker,  115;  naval  oflBcer  in 
Japan,  1387  exploits  of  Vasco  da 
Gama,  197;  castaway  sailor,  199, 
546;  surgeon,  212;  British  sailor 
in  War  of  1812,  272;  young  naval 
officer,  274,  boy  Crusoe,  275;  fisher 
lass  saves  artist  from  drowning, 
354;  castaways,  man  ^d  girl,  361, 
430;  Elizabethan  sea-captains,  383 ; 
yachting,  395,  457;  castaway  ene- 
mies, 458;  mutiny  and  wreck,  459; 
search  for  buried  treasure;  466,  549, 
697;  shanghaied  heir,  470;  life  in 
aBea->p<irt,  ^08;.  fisherman  off  New- 
foundland, 514;  naval  battles,  523, 
526,  529,  538,  539,  542,  543;  voyage 
across  Atlantic,  534;  island  appears 
and  disappears,  546;  pursuit  of 
law-breaking  Vessel,  547;  sailor 
among  Pacific  cannibals,  578; 
whaling,  579;  French  nobleman 
wrecked  on  New  England  coast, 
595;  castaway  vridows,  600;  Cape 
Cod  folks,  651;  tyrannical  ship- 
captain,    674;     Swiss   family    cast 


away  on  Pacific  Island,  675.  (Sec 
also  Pirate  and  Sailor  in"  Char- 
acter.) 

Secret  Society,  poUtical,  kills  traitor, 
403 

Seduction,  15,  71;  doctor  seduces 
patient,  106;  jo\x6  elopes  vdth  mar- 
ried worhani  123;  man's  .sweet- 
heart ruined 'by  his  friend,  128;  of 
Jew's  wife;  134;  false,  149;  mediae- 
val lust,  155;  resisted  by  servant 
girl,  201;  of  girl  by  libertine,  202; 
resisted  by  young" man,  204;  of  girl 
at  watering-place,  246;  of  married 
woman,  by  strong-\villed  man,  283; 
gambler  betrays  girl,  284;  of  hero's 
mother,  285;  of  fisher  girl  by  aristo- 
crat, 345;  of  mechanic's  sweet- 
heart by  aristocrat,  387;  athlclc 
seduces  woman,  407 ;  of  young  hus- 
band by  siren,  415;  aristocrat  be- 
trays servant,  451;  man  kills  be- 
trayer of  his  sweetheart,  473;  elop- 
ing wife,  482;  clergyman  seduces 
girl,  497 ;  of  Charlotte  Temple,  517; 
forger  seduces  woman,  574;  pre- 
vented, 589;  of  servant  by  Russian 
nobleman,  684.  (See  also  Adultery; 
Courtesan;  Mistress  and  Libertine 
in  Character,  Sensuahty.) 

Selfishnes?,  youth  gratifies  his  wishes 
with  talisman,  22;  fortune-seeker, 
26;  heartless  daughters,  27;  schem- 
ing poet,  30;  allegory  of,  79;  of 
student  in  Paris,  83 ;  inherited,  85 ; 
of  mother,  115;  of  king,  116;  of 
courtesan,  119;  of  religious  fanatic, 
120;  of  pohticalidol,  118;  scheming 
mother  and  son,  121;  selfish  elder 
brother,  124;  egoist,  416;  of  pohli- 
cal  schemer,  476;  of  rich,  592;  of 
missionary,  600;  of  lover,  601;  of 
ambitious  woman,  647;  of  preacher,- 
652 

Self-Sacrifice,  mistress  resigns  lover  to 
pure  girl,  12;  of  country  doctor,  25; 
married  woman  gives  up  lover  to 
her  daughter,  29;  sailor  gives  up 
sweetheart  to  another,  65;  general 
does  humane  but  treasonable  act, 
67;  neurotic  youth  resigns  sweet- 
heart to  better  man,  75;  heiress  be- 
comes work-girl  to  save  dissipated 
lover,  78;  chief  respects  chastity  of 
priestess,  82;  true  heir  allows  wo- 
man he  loves  to  retain  inheritance, 
84;  courtesan  resigns  lover,  88;  son 
sacrifices  himself  for  mother,  116; 


I40 


SUBJECTS 


Sensuality 
to   Strlke.9 


husband  shouMers  crime  of  wife, 
123;  of  brother,  124,  335;  girl  re- 
signs beloved  to  friend,  126;  girl 
devotes  herself  to  viTonged  man, 
187;  wife  heals  husband  by  trans- 
fusion of  blood,  195,  602;  betrothed 
resigns  lover,  203;  girl  agrees  to 
loveless  marriage  to  save  father,  232; 
man  suffers  charge  of  cowardice 
rather  than  fight  duel,  285;  elder 
brother  resigns  beloved  to  younger, 
295;  husband  takes  wife's  place  on 
guillotine,  296;  man  resigns  be- 
loved to  her  benefactor,  305 ;  father 
sacrifices  himself  for  son,  ^^;i ;  man 
takes  place  of  his  rival  in  love  on 
guillotine,  349;  maiden  claims 
child  to  shield  married  sister,  356; 
husband  heals  wife  by  transfusion 
of  blood,  360;  poor  girl  resigns 
noined  lover  to  heiress,  374;  of  sis- 
ter for  wayward  brother,  377;  wife 
cares  for  former  mistress  of  husband, 
379,  390;  adopted  daughter  of 
weaver  refuses  to  go  vrith  aristo- 
cratic father,  389;  heiress  marries 
poor  labor  leader,  39 1 ;  widow  loses 
fortune  to  marry  man  under  social 
ban,  392;  Jew  adopted  by  rich 
Christian  goes  with  his  own  people, 
393;  man  resigns  beloved  to  his 
step-brother,  395;  poor  lover  re- 
signs heiress,  409 ;  son  takes  father's 
crime  on  himself,  429;  poor  laborer 
refuses  to  woo  owner  of  farm,  448; 
of  deposed  king  and  faithful  queen, 
467;  husband  bears  charge  of  wife's 
theft,  475;  author  suffers  plagiarist 
to  go  unpunished  for  sake  of  the 
man's  wife,  485;  negro  girl  dies  to 
save  life  of  Englishman,  488;  hus- 
band kills  himself  to  make  way  for 
wife's  lover,  504;  girl  dies  to  aid  be- 
loved to  escape,  505 ;  king's  double 
and  queen  renounce  love  for  duty, 
506;  his  wife  resigns  ex-monk  to 
church,  512;  of  spy  in  American 
Revolution,  521;  sick  lover  resigns 
beloved,  554;  bride  adopts  hus- 
band's child  by  mistress,  573;  mu- 
latto doctor  renounces  position 
among  whites  to  work  among  blacks, 
594;  French  nobleman  gives  up  rank 
for  American  Quakeress,  595 ;  wife 
of  worthless  man  puts  by  temptation 
of  divorce,  615;  of  sister,  636;  girl 
refuses  marriage  to  become  doctor, 
637;    lovers  refuse   to  have   man 


break  engagement  to  another,  639; 
lover  dies  to  make  way  for  rival  in 
love,  650;  woman  resigns  lover  to 
care  for  orphan,  654;  American 
gives  himself  up  to  death  for  honor 
of  princess,  668;  master  saves  ser- 
vant from  freezing,  683;  nobleman 
goes  to  Siberia  with  servant  he  had 
seduced,  684;  Dutch  oflcicial  in 
Java  removed  for  humanity,  689; 
blind  deaf-mute  confesses  murder 
to  save  brother,  690;  husband 
effaces  himself  to  leave  wife  rich, 
691.     (See  also  Heroism.) 

Sensuality,  of  outlaw,  70;  strives  with 
heroism  within  a  man,  113;  of  polit- 
ical idol,  118;  of  monk,  149,  255; 
libertine  201,  202,  217,  283,  284, 
345.  387.  394,  451.  490,  574,  618, 
654,  681,  682;  of  women,  204;  doc- 
tor develops  a  second  and  sensual 
personality,  418;  of  sea-captain,  674. 
(See  Courtesan  and  Libertine  in 
Character.) 

Slavery,  Russian  serfs,  677.  (See  also 
Negro.) 

Smuggling,  190,  230 

Social  Reform,  profit-sharing,  190; 
of  abuses  of  tenantry,  228,316;  fu- 
ture of,  304;  relief  of  workingmen, 
317,  666;  prison  reform,  355;  abuses 
of  private  insane  asylums,  359 ; 
woman's  rights,  365;  People's 
Palace,  438;  socialism,  642;  Rus- 
sian nobleman  gives  up  land  to 
peasants,  684;  satire  of  organized 
charity,  696.  (See  also  Poverty, 
Temperance.) 

Society,  intrigue,  30;  rivalry,  32; 
Parisian,  33,  306;  untutored  girl 
in,  221;  untutored  wife  in,  227; 
at  watering-place,  246,  261;  Eng- 
Ush  country  gentry,  256,  261, 
270;  English  aristocracy,  273,  284, 
285,  310,  311,  314,  316,  319,  320, 
331,  426,  476,  520;  murderess  in, 
298;  American,  427,  586,  592,  647, 
662;  American  girl  disregards 
European  conventions,  619;  Creole, 
621;  Anglomania,  626;  English  and 
American  society,  626,  631;  Rus- 
sian, satire  of,  677 

Sociology,  see  Labor,  Penology  •  Pov- 
erty, Social  Reform 

Sorcery,  see  Divination 

Sports,  see  Athletics 

Stenography,  hero  practises,  34^ 

Strikes,  see  Labor 


^ 


Suicide  to 
Touth 


SUBJECTS 


141 


Suicide,  see  Death 

Supernatural,  The,  see  Magic,  Mys- 
ticism, Psychic  Phenomena 

Superstition,  negro,  644 

Symbohsm,  of  talisman,  22;  of  man- 
woman,  26;  of  complementary 
women,  29;  Oriental  allegory  of 
altruism,  79;  parable  of  tolerance  in 
reHgion,  149;  animals  symbolize 
men,  166;  Death  and  Devil  personi- 
fied, 172;  man  sells  shadow  to 
devil,  173;  allegory  teaching  hu- 
manity, 175;  allegory  of  life,  208; 
man  creates  human  monster  who 
destroys  him,  277;  of  debasing 
effect  of  self-indulgence,  468 

Telepathy,  see  Psychic  Phenomena 

Temperance,  girl  saves  drunken  lover, 
78;  tragedy  wrought  by  hquor  in 
home  of  workingman,  105;  drunk- 
ard sells  wife  and  children,  450; 
drinking  bout  between  carons 
and  monks,  531;  drink  and 
crim.e,  563;  incurable  dipsomaniac, 
622.  (See  also  Drunkard  in 
Character.) 

Terror,  see  Horror 

Theatre,  The,  adventures  of  strolling 
player,  77,  168;  harlot  of  the  stage, 
107;  death  in,  116;  amateur  actor, 
289;  stage-dancer  becomes  gover- 
ness, 336;  Margaret  Wofhngton, 
actress,  353;  Highland  laird  kid- 
naps actress,  457;  plagiarism  in 
playwriting,  496;  peasant  girl  goes 
on  stage,  693.  (See  also  Actor  and 
Actress  in  Character.) 

Theft,  robbery  of  heiress,  34;  bandit 
banks  his  ransoms,  92;  bank  rob- 
bery, 97;  conversion  of  heiress's 
esuate,  188,  execution  of  thief,  205; 
stolen  fortunes,  226;  plot  to  steal 
estate,  227;  228;  German  bandit, 
280;  heroic  robber,  287;  uncle 
robs  nephews  of  inheritance,  295 ; 
manager  absconds,  344;  abused  son 
becomes  thief,  347;  innocent  man 
corvicted  of,  355;  embezzlement, 
344,  359;  wrecked  man  robbed  by 
mother  of  girl  who  rescued  him,  384; 
by  adventuress,  405;  stolen  Hindu 
jewrl  recovered,  406;  of  diamonds, 
429;  husband  bears  charge  of  wife's 
theft,  415;  girl  to  test  lover  pretends 
to  be  thief,    516;    timber-steaUng, 


544;  plot  to  rob  heiress  frustrated, 
567;   capitalist  robs  inventor,  581 

Thrift,  allegory  of,  175 

Torture,  of  Beatrice  Ccnci,  154 

Tragedy,  see  Death,  Love 

Transix)rtation,  innocent  man  sent  to 
Australia,  355,  361 

Travel,  Mediterranean  countries  and 
Palestine,  312;  Englishman  in 
America,  343;  tour  of  England  in 
phaeton,  455;  American  tours 
Europe,  462.  (See  also  Index  on 
page  114  of  Proper  Names:  II. 
Places.) 

Treason,  conspiracy  of  Cinq-Mars,  19; 
criminal  spy,  43 ;  conspiracy  of  Holy 
League,  50;  plot  to  rescue  Marie 
Antoinette,  53 

Trusts,  see  Business 

Vanity,  of  Uon-hunter,  113;  of  states- 
man, 118 

Vengeance,  see  Punishment,  Revenge 

Ventriloquism,  325 

Vice,  among  EngUsh  aristocracy,  66, 
412,  490;  among  English  criminal 
classes,  328;  opium -eating,  352,  406. 
(See  also  Gambling,  Temperance.) 

War,  see  Soldier  in  Character  ;  His- 
tory 

Wealth,  unlimited,  through  taUsman, 
22;  used  for  vengeance,  44 ;  spend- 
thrift and  false  heir,  326;  mysterious 
benefactor,  350;  worship  of,  pun- 
ished, 351;  gold  discovered  in  Aus- 
tralia, 355;  thrift  and  extravagance, 
432;  buried  treasure,  466,  469,  488, 
549,  556,  697;  worship  of  Mam- 
mon, 592;  evils  of  monop<ily, 
62.3  (See  also  Business,  Philan- 
thropy.) 

Will,  girl  of  strong,  87,  269;  husband 
kills  wife  to  save  her  from  harlotry, 
89;  seducer  of  compelling  will  meets 
ghost  of  his  victim  at  assignation, 
283;  physical  manifestation  of,  304; 
husband  alienates  wife  by  his  self- 
will,  372;  self-willed  father  ruins 
son's  life,  415 

Wisdom,  see  Intellect 

Witchcraft,  see  Divination,  Magic, 
and  Witch  in  Charac7  er 

Youth,  secret  of  immortal,  489,  490 
(See  also  Youth  in  Character.) 


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